Book about 1939 Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland to be released in US

A critically acclaimed book that “sets the record straight” on the 1939 Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland is set to be released in the United States later this month.

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The volume by British historian Roger Moorhouse, entitled Poland 1939. The Outbreak of World War II, will be released in the United States on July 14, Polish state news agency PAP reported.

This is exciting! Postman has just delivered the US edition of my latest book - beautifully produced by @BasicBooks - on Poland’s brave fight against German and Soviet invasion in 1939. It’s on sale (in the USA & Canada) from the 14 July. #Poland1939 #WW2 pic.twitter.com/3uztuvmG3Z

— Roger Moorhouse (@Roger_Moorhouse) July 1, 2020

The book, which was last year released in the United Kingdom under the title First to Fight: The Polish War 1939, as well as in Poland under the title Polska 1939. Pierwsi przeciwko Hitlerowi, is the first account in English of the Polish defensive war of 1939 in almost five decades.

In 2019, it was featured among BBC History Magazine’s Books of the Year.

It was also shortlisted for the 2020 Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History in Britain.

In a review, British weekly The Economist wrote that Moorhouse’s book “sets the wartime record straight about Poland’s forgotten heroism and suffering, which is strangely absent from standard histories.”

Excellent review in the current issue of @Economist: "Mr Moorhouse’s book [weaves] together archival material, first-hand accounts, perceptive analysis and heartbreaking descriptions of Poland’s betrayal, defeat and dismemberment." https://t.co/3ByawzHgNd via @TheEconomist

— Roger Moorhouse (@Roger_Moorhouse) September 6, 2019

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Source: PAP