Thousand Hour Day

This extraordinary novel takes place during the first thousand hours of WWII the thousand hours in which Poland was conquered by blitzkrieg. It is a novel about the tragedy of a nation armed with little more than courage resisting one of the most powerful military machines of modern times; about men and women who struggle through fearful days and nights to preserve the reality they believe in; about conquerors who are arrogant frightened and destructive; about the deliberately uncommitted observers professional skeptics. And in a broader sense it is a novel about conflicts of value conflicts that rage on no matter who wins on the battle field. In THE THOUSAND HOUR DAY W. S. Kuniczak has created a richly textured cast of characters and woven them into the hours that spelled disaster for Poland. For her living and dying in the heroic defense of the Westerplatte or the heartbreaking siege of Warsaw or the doomed offensive at Kutno are men and women like Janusz Prus the gentle p