Blitzkrieg Poland

Images of War

by Jonathan Sutherland, Diane Canwell

"These photographs are taken from three unpublished albums featuring the German invasion of Poland in 1939. One set was taken by an SS officer, another by a regular officer and a third by a soldier attached to a medical unit. Included are German units on the move, tanks, artillery and aircraft.

There are several shots of recently knocked out Polish vehicles, captured Polish troops and civilians. The shots reflect the rapid pace of the German advance through Poland, some of the cities, towns and villages show signs of heavy fighting, whilst others appear to be untouched. One of the sets show a German unit mounted in fast open cars, heavily armed, speeding through the Polish countryside. Another features armored vehicles and engineers, while another shows the ambulance teams moving up to the front through devastation and chaos.

There are also numerous opportunities throughout the book to see uniforms in their various guises and how they were actually worn in practice. There are shots of earlier German armor, “antique“ Polish armor, and photographs of German troops at rest and preparing to move forward again."

183 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 21, 2010

About the author

Credited as Jon Sutherland on several books.

Reviews

[Luis Arturo Mantilla Lopez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another view of the first moves of the WW2

Pictorial account of one of the most devastating and brutal campaigns of the second world war, even though the pictorial record depicts auxiliary units during the polish campaign it shows part of the destruction and annihilation of the Poles by the Germans and Russians. It is a complementary read for any person interested on what happened in-the early days of the war.