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Based on the book by Wladyslaw Szpilman.

Amazon: On September 23, 1939, Wladyslaw Szpilman played Chopin's Nocturne in C-sharp minor live on the radio as shells exploded outside―so loudly that he couldn't hear his piano. It was the last live music broadcast from Warsaw: That day, a German bomb hit the station, and Polish Radio went off the air.

Amazon: A true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.

Amazon: A Question of Honor is the gripping, little-known story of the refugee Polish pilots who joined the RAF and played an essential role in saving Britain from the Nazis, only to be betrayed by the Allies after the war.

Amazon: There is a chapter of World War 2 history that remains largely untold: the story of the fourth largest Allied military of the war, and the only nation to have fought in the battles of Leningrad, Arnhem, Tobruk and Normandy. This is the story of the Polish forces during the Second World War...

 From Book 1: The act of Nazi terror deserves absolute condemnation. The town of Wieluń was almost annihilated on the very first day of the Second World War. We shall always honor the memory of its inhabitants.

Amazon: A new and definitive account of the German invasion of Poland that initiated WWII in 1939, written by a historian at the height of his abilities.

  One of the most dramatic and shameful episodes in World War II was the doomed Warsaw uprising of 1944—an uprising that failed because the Allies betrayed it. Now that story comes to its full terrible life in this gripping account by the bestselling historian Norman Davies.

  Amazon: For Americans, World War II began in December 1941, with the bombing of Pearl Harbor; but for Europe, the war began on September 1, 1939, when Hitler’s soldiers invaded Poland, followed later that month by Stalin’s Red Army. The conflict that ensued saw the debut of many of the features that would come to define the later war—blitzkrieg, the targeting of civilians, ethnic cleansing, and indiscriminate aerial bombing—yet it is routinely overlooked by historians.  

    This book shows how much the city of Warsaw and its residents suffered under German Nazi occupation. It also shows that the destruction was planned before the war and that there were no accidents. The city of Warsaw was to disappear to be later reborn as the small German city of Warschau. You will see how the plan was implemented from the first days of the war, through brutal occupation, the Ghetto uprising, the Warsaw uprising, and finally, destruction. You will see how rapidly the city's population shrunk from 1.3 million to 1,000.