Halik Kochanski is a British historian. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and member of the British Commission for Military History, she taught history at several universities and is the author of The Eagle Unbowed- Poland and the Poles in the Second World War.
The best book about the resistance I have ever read. It addresses
the story with scholarly objectivity and an absolute lack of
sentimentality ... it is marvellous to read a study of such breadth
and depth, which reaches balanced judgments.
*Sunday Times*
Ground-breaking ... a superb, myth-busting survey of the many ways
in which the subjugated peoples of Europe tried to fight back.
*Daily Telegraph*
A full and nuanced account of all the different forms of
resistance... a timely book.
*Times Literary Supplement*
Eminently readable ... subtle, multilayered and kaleidoscopic ...
Kochanski's gripping account of the activities of the resistance
includes, as might be expected, tales of derring-do and
extraordinary courage as well as tragedy, betrayal and Nazi
barbarism.
*Wall Street Journal*
This ambitious history offers the first unified picture of
resistance against Nazi Germany in the many countries it invaded
... Dispensing with heroics and highlighting the imperfect, human
nature of the underground, [Kochanski] nevertheless depicts a vital
defence of dignity, spirit, and the future, mounted against all
odds.
*New Yorker*
Halik Kochanski's Resistance reads less like a work of history and
more like a chronicle of a partisan war foretold ... her scrupulous
scholarship, and her refusal to romanticize the grim, grimy work of
being a resister, does make Resistance something of a primer for
the many Ukrainians now fighting to undermine Russian
authority.
*Project Syndicate*
This history of resistance in the Second World War is as moving as
it is comprehensive.
*The Critic*
An excellent comparative study of wartime resistance in all its
forms.
*BBC History*
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