ASIN: B079X4T46W
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Pages: 52
*Includes pictures*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“The passive resistance to war, in which we have acquitted ourselves so well, must come to an end.” – Prime Minister Winston ChurchillEurope’s attempts to appease Adolf Hitler, most notably at Munich in 1938, failed, as Nazi Germany swallowed up Austria and Czechoslovakia by 1939. Italy was on the march as well, invading Albania in April of 1939. The straw that broke the camel's back, however, was Germany's invasion of Poland on September 1 of that year. Two days later, France and Great Britain declared war on Germany, and World War II had begun in earnest. Of course, as most people now know, the invasion of Poland was merely the preface to the Nazi blitzkrieg of most of Western Europe, which would include Denmark, Belgium, and France by the summer of 1940. The resistance put ...
