Poland 1939: The invasion that sparked WW2

Roger Moorhouse delivers a lecture on the German invasion of Poland in 1939

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Published: October 31, 2020 at 12:21 pm

In a lecture he delivered at BBC History Magazine’s 2019 Winchester History Weekend event, historian Roger Moorhouse tells the story of one of the most misunderstood campaigns of the Second World War – the German invasion of Poland in 1939.

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