Adam Zamoyski

Poland was no walkover for the Reich

It was the first casualty of the second world war, shamefully let down by the Allies in 1939. But Roger Moorhouse’s story of Poland’s resistance is both harrowing and inspiring

  • First to Fight: The Polish War 1939

    Roger Moorhouse

    The Bodley Head, pp. 368, £25

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