"Poland is a wildly dramatic and tragic story. It's just unbelievable what went on with those people. How they survive, I don't really know. The Germans had a particular hatred for the Poles; they really considered them subhuman Slavs, and they were very brutal to them."
Alan Furst is an American novelist known for historical espionage fiction set in pre- and postwar Europe. His books are noted for atmosphere, political context, and intelligence tradecraft. He has been a prominent writer in modern spy literature.