White Eagle, Red Star The Polish-Soviet War 1919-20

Name: White Eagle, Red Star
Author: Norman Davies

Auteur: Norman Davies

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Norman Davies

Uitgever: Vintage Publishing

Engels
Paperback
9780712606943
Druk: New edition
november 2003
352 pagina's

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Norman Davies

"Ivor Norman Richard Davies CMG FBA FRHistS (born 8 June 1939) is a British-Polish historian noted for his publications on the history of Europe, Poland and the United Kingdom. He is a historian with special interest in Central and Eastern Europe. He is UNESCO Professor at the Jagiellonian University, professor emeritus at University College London, a visiting professor at the Collège d'Europe, and an honorary fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford. He was granted Polish citizenship in 2014.

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Surprisingly little known, the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-20 was to change the course of twentieth-century history. In White Eagle, Red Star, Norman Davies gives a full account of the War, with its dramatic climax in August 1920 when the Red Army - sure of victory and pledged to carry the Revolution across Europe to 'water our horses on the Rhine' - was crushed by a devastating Polish attack. Since known as the 'miracle on the Vistula', it remains one of the most decisive battles of the Western world. Drawing on both Polish and Russian sources, Norman Davies illustrates the narrative with documentary material which hitherto has not been readily available and shows how the War was far more an 'episode' in East European affairs, but largely determined the course of European history for the next twenty years or more.