The Polish Campaign, 1939
- ISBN-10
- 087052013X
- ISBN-13
- 9780870520136
- Category
- Fiction / General
- Pages
- 195
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1990-12-31
- Publisher
- Hippocrene Books
- Authors
- Steve Zaloga, W. Victor Madej
Description
The Polish Campaign of 1939 was the first violent demonstration of the effectiveness of the Blitzkrief tactics of the German Army. This book takes little-known Polish documentary sources to provide a look at the battles from the perspective of the Polish Army.
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