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Alexander Usovsky tried to describe in less than 300 pages a rather complex, rich and confusing period in the history of Poland from 1918 to 1939, adding to this a couple of introductory chapters about the reasons for the collapse of the first Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and about the life of the Polish people after the third partition countries. The result is a book with a fairly coherent sequential narrative, superficially touching on the main points of the described issues, but at the same time without a deep, comprehensive cause-and-effect analysis.
Despite this, the presentation contains points that are rarely found in other authors, and therefore require their mention here:
• He devotes quite a lot of space to the economy of pre-war Germany and its characteristics.
• The structure of both the Polish and German armies before the outbreak of the conflict is examined. Their strengths and weaknesses are shown.
• The personality of Adolf Hitler is analyzed with a certain rationality and without the demonization inherent in the vast majority of authors.
The undoubted merit of the writer is his light style - the text is read quickly and in one breath. This book is about how and why the Polish elite betrayed their people in the bloody September 1939, about the real causes of World War II and the role that Poland played in it. This book is about the valor of ordinary Polish soldiers, and it is also about the betrayal of Polish politicians and generals who doomed their own people to slaughter. But on the whole, this book is about the Poland of our days, in which, invisible to prying eyes, the centuries-old battle still continues between Slavic Poland and European Poland - and this battle is still very far from over...
