PORWIT Marian
COMMENTS ON THE HISTORY OF POLISH DEFENSE ACTION 1939.
t. I-III [complete].
Wyd.1
Czytelnik 1983, pp. 332 + 578 + 586, maps, format 15x21 cm
Table of contents of volume I:
List of tables .... 8
List of sketches and maps .... 9
Chapter One
WHY COMMENTARY? ...11
Chapter Two
THE MOST difficult criteria for approaching the truth ... 18
1. Principles of the Art of War ...18
2. Human Capabilities in Combat ...26
Chapter tzeci
SOME PROBLEMS OF STRATEGY OF 1921-1937 ....... 31
1. staffs and staffers ....32
2. conditions, objectives and capabilities ... 38
3. defense planning in Poland until 1937 against the background of the alliance with France ...43
4. war doctrine and combat readiness ....48
5. armed forces on the war footing ....58
8. capabilities to develop forces ....66
Chapter Four
"DON'T GIVE UP" (Plot of the 1939 defensive war against Germany) .... 69
Chapter Five
AGAINST THE PRINCIPLES OF WAR (Operational Plan "West"
of 1939) ....78
1. rationale and thought ....78
2. defensive groupings for the first phase ...81
3. tasks and plans of operational unions ....86
4. plans for use of weapons and services ...102
5. concentration plan and transportation plan 107
6. did Marshal Rydz-Smigły rely on the memorandum of Gen. Ku-
trzeby?
7 Restriction of operational possibilities ...113
8. hindering the tasks of the fighting ....117
Chapter six
FIRST DIGRESSION: WERE THERE OTHER OPTIONS? .... 122
Chapter seven
ACTUAL DEVELOPMENT OF FORCES ....135
1. development of forces from classified mobilization ....135
2. development of forces from general mobilization ....141
3. last operational orders and last chance to correct the deployment
of mobilization ....143
Chapter Eight
THE BIT THAT MAY HAVE CHANGED THE FATE OF THE CAMPAIGN (Actions of the
Army "Krakow" and the Army "Carpathian" from September l to 5)...147
1 Characteristics and evaluation of the battles of the Army "Cracow"...147
2. Characteristics and evaluation of the battles of the Army "Carpathian" ....165
3. characterization ł evaluation of operations ...169
Chapter nine
A battle in which the purpose of fighting was forgotten (Armio "Mo- '
dlin" and SGO "Narew" from l to 5 September) ....177
1 Characteristics and evaluation of the battles ...177
2 Characteristics and evaluation of operations ...189
Chapter ten
ON LOST POSTS (Defense of the Coast from l to
September 7) .... 194
1. defense of the Gdansk Post Office ....194
2. defense of Westerplatte ....196
3. Characteristics and evaluation of the battles of the Land Defense of the Coast .... 198
4. naval operations and defense of Hel ....202
Chapter Eleven
THE BIT OF EXPENSIVE FOREVER (Double battle of the Army of
"Pomerania" from September l to 5) ....206
1 Characteristics and evaluation of the battles of the western part of the Army "Pomerania" .....206
2 Characteristics and evaluation of fighting GO "East" ....212
3. characteristics and evaluation of operations ....225
Chapter twelve
THE BIT OF UNCONTROLLED POSSIBILITIES (Battle of the Army "Lodz"
from l to 5 September. Participation of the Army "Prussia" in the last
phase of the battle. The unsuccessful cooperation of the Army "Poznan")
Characteristics and evaluation of the battle of Army "Lodz".
2. participation of the Army "Prussia" in the last phase of the battle .....254
3. inadvertent cooperation of the Army "Poznan" ....266
4 Characteristics and evaluation of operations ....269
Chapter thirteen
INLAND FIGHTING .....275
1 Characteristics and evaluation of the operations of the Pursuit Brigade ....275
2. operations of Defense, Anti-aircraft ....278
Chapter fourteen
LOSS OF OPERATIONAL FREEDOM OF ACTION ....279
Chapter fifteen
SECOND DIGRESSION: WAS A SHORT COUNTER¬
OFFENSIVE BETWEEN THE WARTA AND PILICA RIVERS? ....286
Chapter sixteen
THE COMBAT EFFORT IN THE FIRST BATTLES ....289
ABBREVIATIONS OF NAMES OF OPERATIONAL COMPOUNDS AND TACTICAL UNITS ....303
REFERENCES 305
INDEX OF NAMES ....316
INDEX OF OPERATIONAL COMPOUNDS AND TACTICAL UNITS ...321
INDEX OF GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES ....329
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