A NEW YORKER BOOK OF THE YEAR
''The best book about the subject I have ever read'' Max Hastings, Sunday Times
''Halik Kochanski''s Resistance reads less like a work of history and more like a chronicle of a partisan war foretold ... a primer for the many Ukrainians now fighting to undermine Russian authority'' Yuliya Tymoshenko, Project Syndicate
A sweeping history of occupation and resistance in war-torn Europe, from the acclaimed author of The Eagle Unbowed
Across the whole of Nazi-ruled Europe the experience of occupation was sharply varied. Some countries - such as Denmark - were allowed to run themselves within tight limits. Others - such as France - were constrained not only by military occupation but by open collaboration. In a historical moment when Nazi victory seemed permanent and irreversible, the question ''why resist?'' was therefore augmented by ''who was the enemy?''.
Resista
