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A review by elphaba78
Case White: The Invasion of Poland 1939 by Robert Forczyk
2.0
DNF.
I'm so disappointed in this book -- I preordered it back in June and eagerly awaited its release, and couldn't get past the first few chapters. My biggest issue is that it reads like someone's thesis -- the writing is extremely stilted and clunky -- and has NO primary source quotes to liven up the fact-reporting text, other than the epigraphs at the beginning of each chapter. The author's background is in military and security history, which should have made Case White a worthy read.
At the same time, Roger Moorhouse (a protege of the leading Western expert on Poland, Norman Davies) published a superb study (First to Fight: The Polish War 1939) of the September campaign, the same subject matter as Case White, and it is leagues better than Forczyk's.
I'm so disappointed in this book -- I preordered it back in June and eagerly awaited its release, and couldn't get past the first few chapters. My biggest issue is that it reads like someone's thesis -- the writing is extremely stilted and clunky -- and has NO primary source quotes to liven up the fact-reporting text, other than the epigraphs at the beginning of each chapter. The author's background is in military and security history, which should have made Case White a worthy read.
At the same time, Roger Moorhouse (a protege of the leading Western expert on Poland, Norman Davies) published a superb study (First to Fight: The Polish War 1939) of the September campaign, the same subject matter as Case White, and it is leagues better than Forczyk's.