- List of Illustrations*
- List of Maps**
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Definitions of Poland and the Poles
- Guide to Polish Pronunciation
- Preface
- 1. The Rebirth of Poland
- 2. Polish Foreign Policy, 1920–1939
- 3. The September 1939 Campaign
- 4. The German and Soviet Occupation of Poland to June 1941
- 5. Exile in the Soviet Union
- 6. Escape from the Soviet Union
- 7. Poland’s Contribution to the Allied War Effort, 1940–1943
- 8. Polish Non-combatants Outside Poland, 1939–1945
- 9. The Dark Years: Occupied Poland, 1941–1943
- 10. The Holocaust, 1941–1943
- 11. Sikorski’s Diplomacy, 1941–1943
- 12. Threats to the Standing of the Polish Government-in-Exile and the Polish Underground Authorities
- 13. The Polish Dilemma: The Retreat of the Germans and the Advance of the Red Army
- 14. Poland: The Inconvenient Ally
- 15. Fighting under British Command, 1943–1945
- 16. The End of the War
- 17. The Aftermath of the War
- 18. The Final Chapter
- Appendix 1: Order of Battle of the Polish Army, 1939–1945
- Appendix 2: Principal Polish Personalities
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- * Illustrations:
- 1. Annual commemoration of Piłsudski’s counteroffensive
- 2. Troops from the Warsaw garrison after the surrender
- 3. German troops taking down Polish government symbols
- 4. Soviet troops marching through Wilno
- 5. A column of Jews guarded by German soldiers is marched through the streets of Warsaw
- 6. Polish POWs doing reconstruction work
- 7. Sikorski, Zaleski and Raczyński
- 8. Polish refugees in Rumania
- 9. Raczyński, Sikorski, Churchill, Zaleski and Attlee signing the agreement between Poland and the United Kingdom
- 10. Clementine and Winston Churchill and Sikorski in Fife
- 11. Antoni Głowacki with a fellow pilot during the Battle of Britain
- 12. Polish Army howitzer training exercise
- 13. The footbridge connecting the ‘Small Ghetto’ to the ‘Large Ghetto’ in Warsaw
- 14. Raid on the Warsaw Ghetto
- 15. Polish refugees from the Soviet Union in Iran
- 16. General Władysław Anders and Sikorski
- 17. Starving Poles on arrival in Iran
- 18. Orphaned Polish boys on PE parade in Palestine
- 19. The site of the Katyń massacre
- 20. The Warsaw ghetto uprising
- 21. The Warsaw ghetto uprising
- 22. Tanks of the 1st Polish Armoured Division in Normandy
- 23. Troops of the 3rd Carpathian Rifles Division at Monte Cassino
- 24. Scene at Majdanek after Soviet liberation
- 25. General Berling and members of the Polish Committee of National Liberation
- 26. Troops of the Armia Krajowa with captured Germans
- 27. Funeral of an AK soldier
- 28. General Tadeusz ‘Bór’ Komorowski
- 29. Soldiers of the 1st Polish Armoured Division after liberating Breda
- 30. Polish and Soviet women slave-workers in Germany
- 31. Polish male prisoners at Dachau after liberation
- 32. Thousands of Polish troops aboard SS Banfora at Tilbury Docks
- ** Maps:
- 1. The Second Polish Republic, 1922–1939
- 2. The Pre-war Republic showing the Curzon Line and Curzon Line B
- 3. The German and Soviet Invasions of Poland
- 4. The Division of Poland between Germany and the Soviet Union
- 5. Poland Post-Barbarossa
- 6. Principal Extermination and Concentration Camps
- 7. The Warsaw Uprising
- 8. Poland in 1945 with Territorial Losses and Gains
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