Halik Kochanski

220px The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War (2012 cover) by Halik Kochanski

Dr. Halik Kochanski is a British historian and writer. She was educated at Downside School and at Balliol College, Oxford, where she was awarded an M.A. in Modern History. She obtained her Ph.D from King's College, London. She has taught history at King's College London and University College, London. She has written a number of historical articles and two books: Sir Garnet Wolseley: Victorian Hero (1999) and The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War (2012).

She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a member of the Army Records Society, the Society for Army Historical Research, the British Commission for Military History and the Institute for Historical Research. As of 2012 she is a judge for the Templer Medal book prize.

Until Halik Kochanski's The Eagle Unbowed nobody had written a comprehensive English-language history of Poland at war. A British-born historian whose own family’s experiences dot her pages, she weaves together the political, military, diplomatic and human strands of the story. She ranges from the fatal weaknesses of pre-war Poland (divided, cash-strapped and isolated) to the humiliation of Britain’s victory parade in 1946 when the organisers invited Fijians and Mexicans, but not Poles.

— Books and Arts. The Economist

Books

• 1999: Sir Garnet Wolseley: Victorian Hero. London: The Hambledon Press. ISBN 1-85285-188-0
• 2012: The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War. London: Allen Lane. ISBN 978-1-846-14354-0

References

• The Eagle Unbowed by Halik Kochanski