Dr Halik Kochanski is a British historian. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, she taught history at several universities and is the author of Sir Garnet Wolseley: A Victorian Hero (Hambledon Press, 1999); The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War (Allen Lane / Penguin, 2012) and Resistance: The Underground War in Europe, 1939–1945 (Allen Lane, 2022).
Resistance was the winner of the 2023 Wolfson History Prize.
Halik is now working on a new project, on British citizens marooned on the continent at the outbreak of the Second World War, to be published by Bloomsbury.