Published to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the start of World War II, Robert Forczyk tells the story of Case White, the German invasion of Poland in 1939. Using a wide array of sources, Robert Forzyck challenges the myths of the German invasion of Poland to tell the full story of the invasion that sparked history's greatest conflict. The German invasion of Poland in September 1939, designated as Fall Weiss (Case White), was the event that sparked the outbreak of World War II in Europe. The campaign has widely been described as a textbook example of Blitzkreig, but in fact it was a fairly conventional campaign as the Wehrmacht was still learning how to use its new Panzers and dive-bombers. The Polish military is often misrepresented as hopelessly obsolete and out-classed by the Wehrmacht, yet in reality it was well equipped, with modern weapons and armor. Indeed, the Polish possessed more tanks than the British and had cracked the German Enigma cipher machine. Though the combined assault from Germany and the Soviet Union defeated Poland, they could not crush the Polish fighting spirit and thousands of soldiers and airmen escaped to fight on other fronts. The result of Case White was a brutal occupation, as Polish Slavs found themselves marginalized and later eliminated, paving the way for Hitler's vision of Lebensraum (living space) and his later betrayal and invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.