The War Hitler Won
The Fall of Poland, September 1939
by Nicholas Bethell

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• Format: hardcover, 480 pages
• Release date: May 15, 1973
• Author: Nicholas Bethell
• ISBN: 9780030013768 (0030013763)
• Publisher: Holt, Rinehart & Winston (NYC)
• Language: english

About The Book

At 5:40AM, 9/1/39, Hitler announced his invasion of Poland. During the next 72 hours, while French & British civilian & military leaders (Poland’s sworn allies) equivocated & while the USA maintained neutrality, armored columns & the Luftwaffe gained the momentum which enabled them to conclusively roll over the antiquated Polish cavalry & infantry while driving its planes from the sky. By 9/28 Poland was theirs — abetted by Russian invasion on 9/17. This was the phony war, when no bombs were dropped on German soil (private property, a British Secretary of State for Air protested), when French troops took only defensive positions on the Maginot Line, when Mussolini & the Swedish businessman Birger Dahlerus moved between Berlin & the Allies as self-appointed saviors. Bethell’s account of those weeks follows the opening of the British State Papers for the period & shows from inside how the political decisions were made, how opportunities were lost & allegiances broken, & how the necessity of war with Hitler gradually became reality. It describes behind-the-scenes maneuvers in Moscow & Berlin of Hitler, Ribbentrop, Stalin & Molotov; Roosevelt’s attempt to awaken Americans to the danger; the distrustful bargaining between Paris & London; the vacillation of Daladier, Bonnet & Chamberlain; the bitter conflict, between the French & British politicians who favored peace at any price & those who realized the Nazi threat; & the heroic, terrible story of the Poles themselves, outflanked & outmachined in a new type of warfare. The War Hitler Won presents a fascinating picture of the crucial political & military events of WWII’s opening days.

Preface

The First Day

An Uneasy Lull

A Tentative Beginning

The Fall of Poland

Exchanges of Harsh Words

The Empire in Peril

Neutral — but on Whose Side?

Russia the Great Enigma

The Peace Offensive

Chronological List of Major Events

Notes

Source Materials

Select Bibliography

Index

Maps

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