{"product_id":"resistance-the-underground-war-against-hitler-1939-1945-9781324091653","title":"Resistance: The Underground War Against Hitler, 1939-1945","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"To resist, therefore. But how, when and where? There were no laws, no guidelines, no precedents to show the way . . .\" --Dutch resister Herman Friedhoff\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn every country that fell to the Third Reich during the Second World War, from France in the west to parts of the Soviet Union in the east, a resistance movement against Nazi domination emerged. And every country that endured occupation created its own fiercely nationalist account of the role of homegrown resistance in its eventual liberation. Halik Kochanski's panoramic, prodigiously researched work is a monumental achievement: the first book to strip these disparate national histories of myth and nostalgia and to integrate them into a definitive chronicle of the underground war against the Nazis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBringing to light many powerful and often little-known stories, \u003cem\u003eResistance\u003c\/em\u003e shows how small bands of individuals took actions that could lead not merely to their own deaths, but to the liquidation of their families and their entire communities. As Kochanski demonstrates, most who joined up were not supermen and superwomen, but ordinary people drawn from all walks of life who would not have been expected--least of all by themselves--to become heroes of any kind. Kochanski also covers the sheer variety of resistance activities, from the clandestine press, assistance to Allied servicemen evading capture, and the provision of intelligence to the Allies to the more violent manifestations of resistance through sabotage and armed insurrection. For many people, resistance was not an occupation or an identity, but an activity: a person would deliver a cache of stolen documents to armed partisans and then seamlessly return to their normal life. For Jews under Nazi rule, meanwhile, the stakes at every point were life and death; resistance was less about national restoration than about mere survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy resist at all? Who is the real enemy? What kind of future are we risking our lives for? These and other questions animated those who resisted. With penetrating insight, Kochanski reveals that the single quality that defined resistance across borders was resilience: despite the constant arrests and executions, resistance movements rebuilt themselves time and time again. A landmark history that will endure for decades to come, \u003cem\u003eResistance\u003c\/em\u003e forces every reader to ask themselves yet another question, this distinct to our own times: \"What would I have done?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Halik Kochanski\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liveright Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/24\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 960\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.53h x 6.49w x 1.91d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781324091653\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2022 pg. 14\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/07\/2022 pg. 75\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/02\/2022 pg. 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKochanski, Halik:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eHalik Kochanski\u003c\/b\u003e is a British historian. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, she has taught history at several universities and is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War\u003c\/em\u003e. She lives in England.","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Halik Kochanski \/ Hardcover \/ English","offer_id":47659142217885,"sku":"9781324091653","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_b079d334-e54e-4af8-8c7b-bb329d88a965.jpg?v=1771351285","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/resistance-the-underground-war-against-hitler-1939-1945-9781324091653","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}