I never, ever DNF books but this one had me as close as I've ever came.

Case White is incredibly heavy on military detail which I'm sure is great to those who have at least a base knowledge of military history or just any general military knowledge. For me, as someone who had practically no prior knowledge, this just felt like pages and pages and pages of numbers and weapon listings.

So, I guess that's partly my own issue because without that prior knowledge it's a difficult read but I will say that Case White is still incredibly informative. I'm sure actual historians can better confirm the accuracy of everything detailed here but as a "general" reader of WW2 non-fiction, there was a lot here that I had never known that I found fascinating and would love to learn even more about (perhaps more on the political events) and so I am glad I stuck with it.

Thanks to Osprey Publishing and NetGalley for providing me with a copy for review.

I’m embarrassed by how long it took me to read this one. And it’s not the books fault, because I did enjoy it, I just kept sitting down to read it and never focused enough to really get into the book. I am glad that I finally finished it though because it was a really fascinating read.

The title of the book tells you pretty much everything you need to know, this is a super in depth look at what happened during the invasion of Poland in 1939. It starts with the lead up to war and covers everything until after the occupation was over. The amount of research that must have went into writing this book is absolutely incredible, the detail that’s included is insane and the sources leave no doubt that this is all exactly what happened.

The reason that it took me so long to get through was that it is very technical. The author uses all the appropriate military terms and all the Polish and German titles, and there’s also so many short forms for things that I kept getting confused trying to keep it all straight since I don’t have a brain for that. That is definitely not a fault of the book though, and if I had kept notes then I would have had a better idea of what was going on. I still had a fairly clear idea of what was going on at all times and once I did manage to settle in the book flew by.

If you like non fiction and you want a closer look at a rarely talked about portion of WWII then I definitely recommend this one. I learned so much and I’m so glad that I read it.

This book was just dull and this topic is intriguing to me, but Mr. Florczyk had overloaded this book with information in one place - I was not able to follow all the information that was covered by Case White.
I wanted to like this story and find it intriguing as this topic is something that i find really intriguing as it's the history of my own country.

Case White: The Invasion of Poland 1939 is an interesting read. So many new events I learned about in this time in history I had did not know about. I give it five stars.

This is not a light read -- I had to switch off between this and lighter reading fare -- but it shares excellent background knowledge of the start of WWII and Poland. Since oftentimes U.S. history gives much more detail of WWII after the U.S. entered it, it was nice to read in detail about Poland in WWII.

An excellent book, though made needlessly difficult by the use of German and especially Polish military ranks, and also the interchangeability of metric measures, so that at one point the German flak gun is called 8.8 cm and elsewhere 88 mm. (More recently, I find the Germans doing the same thing on the Russian front. But surely an author has the right to harmonize such things.) Then too, Polish geography is impossible to fathom in a digital edition. As the title suggests, the emphasis is upon the German invasion, with little attention paid to the Russian attack from the east that followed seventeen days later. Really excellent in debunking the myth that Polish cavalry charged German panzers with lances leveled -- and also in revealing that Polish and German horse cavalry fought at least one pitched battle! I did review the book on my website in November, and also on Amazon, but perhaps because I gave it a five-star rating, Amazon rejected the review. This happens distressingly often.

Thank you to Netgalley for the opportunity to read and review this book. The German invasion of Poland is commonly accepted as the beginning of World War Two. 'Case White' delves much further into the political and military events of the time. It is well researched and written. As is the case with foreign place names and people it is easy to get lost as a reader keeping everything straight. The fighting and war crimes unfortunately tend to blend into each other. The maps, while accurate, could have been simpler with less military unit designations. The politics of the time were much more valuable to the casual reader.