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Project Eagle
After the Battle of the Bulge—which had begun with a German attack that American intelligence failed to anticipate—the Office of Strategic Service (OSS), forerunner of the CIA, revamped its intelligence operations in Europe. Confronted with staff shortages and needing native language speakers, the OSS decided to enlist the cooperation of volunteers from occupied countries for intelligence-gathering operations. As part of Project Eagle, Polish soldiers were recruited and trained to go behind the lines of the Third Reich. Project Eagle tells this fascinating World War II story of intelligence and espionage that until now has been hidden away in the archives of the OSS. The OSS had worked w...
East Central Europe in Exile Volume 1
The East Central Europe in Exile series consists of two volumes which contain chapters written by both esteemed and renowned scholars, as well as young, aspiring researchers whose work brings a fresh, innovative approach to the study of migration. Altogether, there are thirty-eight chapters in both volumes focusing on the East Central European émigré experience in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The first volume, Transatlantic Migrations, focuses on the reasons for emigration from the lands of East Central Europe; from the Baltic to the Adriatic, the intercontinental journey, as well as on the initial adaptation and assimilation processes. The second volume is slightly different in scope, for it focuses on the aspect of negotiating new identities acquired in the adopted homeland. The authors contributing to Transatlantic Identities focus on the preservation of the East Central European identity, maintenance of contacts with the “old country”, and activities pursued on behalf of, and for the sake of, the abandoned homeland. Combined, both volumes describe the transnational processes affecting East Central European migrants.
Between Nazis and Soviets
Between 1939 and 1947 the county of Janów Lubelski, an agricultural area in central Poland, experienced successive occupations by Nazi Germany (1939-1944) and the Soviet Union (1944-1947). During each period the population, including the Polish majority and the Jewish, Ukrainian, and German minorities, reacted with a combination of accommodation, collaboration, and resistance. In this remarkably detailed and revealing study, Marek Jan Chodakiewicz analyzes and describes the responses of the inhabitants of occupied Janów to the policies of the ruling powers. He provides a highly useful typology of response to occupation, defining collaboration as an active relationship with the occupiers for reasons of self-interest and to the detriment of one's neighbors; resistance as passive and active opposition; and accommodation as compliance falling between the two extremes. He focuses on the ways in which these reactions influenced relations between individuals, between social classes, and between ethnic groups. Casting new light on social dynamics within occupied Poland during and after World War II, Between Nazis and Soviets yields valuable insight for scholars of conflict studies.
Cichociemny
Prawdziwa historia Stefana Przybylika pseud. „Gruch”, jednego z trzystu szesnastu cichociemnych spadochroniarzy Armii Krajowej wyszkolonych w Anglii i zrzuconych do Polski w czasie II wojny światowej. Wielokrotnie wymykał się śmierci, nie złamały go trzy totalitaryzmy. Sowiecki w łagrach, niemiecki na środku Atlantyku i ten w gestapowskim więzieniu. Nie złamali go też stalinowscy funkcjonariusze Urzędu Bezpieczeństwa PRL. Jako ukryta opcja – w zależności od potrzeb: zachodnioniemiecka, amerykańska, angielska albo imperialistyczna – był obiektem zainteresowania służb aż do końca socjalizmu. Jest w tej opowieści wszystko, co zawierać mógłby scenariusz wielkiego wojennego filmu sensacyjnego – walka, więzienie, głód, mróz, spiekota i pragnienie, ucieczka, niewola, morskie katastrofy, beznadzieja rozbitka, wędrówka wycieńczonego włóczęgi przez bezdroża imperium, tortury, desant na zapleczu wroga, zdrady, okręty podwodne, skoki spadochronowe, sytuacje bez wyjścia i zaskakujące zwroty akcji. Jednego tylko brakuje – fikcji. Stefan Przybylik jest autentycznym bohaterem autentycznych wydarzeń. ze wstępu Marka Przybylika
Wrocławski Rocznik Historii Mówionej
Wrocławski Rocznik Historii Mówionej jest wydawanym przez Ośrodek "Pamięć i Przyszłość" multidyscyplinarnym, jedynym w Polsce czasopismem naukowym poświęconym oral history, którego celem jest stworzenie platformy do refleksji metodologicznej nad metodą oral history oraz do wymiany doświadczeń różnych ośrodków i osób – przedstawicieli różnych dyscyplin naukowych – zajmujących się szeroko rozumianą historią mówioną. W periodyku publikowane są wyniki badań naukowych z wykorzystaniem źródeł historii mówionej oraz dyskusje nad samą metodą, a także opracowane naukowo źródla historii mówionej. Czasopismo jest również źródłem informacji o aktualnie pro...
Die polnische Heimatarmee
Die Armia Krajowa war im Zweiten Weltkrieg die zentrale Trägerin des bewaffneten Widerstandes im polnischen Untergrundstaat. Sie wurde von der polnischen Exilregierung in London gelenkt und 1944 von der Roten Armee gewaltsam aufgelöst. Der Sammelband bietet eine umfassende Darstellung der polnischen Heimatarmee seit 1939 und des schwierigen Umganges mit ihrer Geschichte. Vor dem Hintergrund der komplizierten ethnischen und territorialen Gemengelage in der Region werden neben dem internationalen Forschungsstand auch aktuelle Diskussionen in Polen, Deutschland und den Nachfolgestaaten der UdSSR transparent. Aus der Presse: "Das Militärgeschichtliche Forschungsamt hat mit diesem Buch einen Beitrag zur Aufhellung polnischer Zeitgeschichte und der deutsch-polnischen Beziehungen geleistet, der auf absehbare Zeit Bestand haben dürfte und hoffentlich dazu beiträgt, der Präsentation einer ebenso faszinierenden wie blutigen und tragischen Geschichte einen größeren Leserkreis zu verschaffen." Christoph Kleßmann, in: FAZ vom 10.06.2003
Fighters across frontiers
This landmark book, the product of years of research by a team of two dozen historians, reveals that resistance to occupation by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy during the Second World War was not narrowly delineated by country but startlingly international. Tens of thousands of fighters across Europe resisted ‘transnationally’, travelling to join networks far from their homes. These ‘foreigners’ were often communists and Jews who were already being persecuted and on the move. Others were expatriate business people, escaped POWs, forced labourers or deserters. Their experiences would prove personally transformative and greatly affected the course of the conflict. From the International Brigades in Spain to the onset of the Cold War and the foundation of the state of Israel, they played a significant part in a period of upheaval and change during the long Second World War.
Agent Zo
'Deeply researched and written with verve... thoughtful as well as action packed' The Times 'Gripping, moving and important' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'Agent Zo is a triumph. Absolutely essential reading' Hallie Rubenhold This is the incredible story of Elzbieta Zawacka, the WW2 female resistance fighter known as Agent Zo, told here for the very first time. Agent Zo was the only woman to reach London from Warsaw during the Second World War as an emissary of the Polish Home Army command, and then in Britain she became the only woman to join the Polish elite Special Forces, known as the 'Silent Unseen'. She was secretly trained in the British countryside, and then the only female member of these ...
