Reddit reviews For Your Freedom and Ours : The Kosciuszko Squadron - Forgotten Heroes of World War II

You should read this book -

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It's well written and a good read

I'll just leave this here.

A good source from the Polish POV is This book.

It's been a while since I read it, and it's primarily focused on the fighter pilots rather than ground troops, but I don't think the incidence of officers bugging out and leaving their troops out to dry was a particular thing. The senior leadership did come in for a lot of criticism for withdrawing to the southeast of Poland and then into Romania instead of staying in Warsaw till the bitter end, but on the other hand it meant that they were not forced to sign a surrender - Poland actually never surrendered to Germany. Of course, there will have been instances of individual officers failing their courage roll, or even just of confusion and mislaid orders meaning the officers got the order to pull out but the soldiers didn't.

>As a side note any sources relating to British, French or German civilian feeling of the Polish campaign would be appreciated as well.

Again, it's quite well described in the book. Broadly, the British were sympathetic to the Gallant Poles in their romantic fight for freedom, because the British always favour the underdog. The French felt dragged into a war they didn't really want by a junta of intransigent colonels in Warsaw who could have avoided all this if they'd just given Danzig to the Germans, and the Germans themselves had been persuaded by the media that the Poles had been oppressing ethnic Germans and generally acting aggressively towards Germany, and they were glad to have something to cheer for - a bit like Americans after Desert Storm, after the malaise of the post-Vietnam 1980s, it restored some pride.