James Roy (born in Trundle, New South Wales, 1968) is an Australian writer. He writes primarily for young adults and children, and in addition to his native Australia, his books are published in the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany and South Korea. Roy's parents were Seventh-day Adventist missionaries to Papua New Guinea and Fiji. Roy has often said that growing up in such an environment was key to his development as a writer. He lives in the with his wife and two daughters.

The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945 is a 2015 book by Jewish American historian Joshua D. Zimmerman, focusing on the relationship between Polish resistance in World War II and the Jews. The book has received a number of reviews. In Yad Vashem Studies in 2015, Antony Polonsky praised the book for being a "fair and dispassionate study" which seeks to "reach a conclusion on the actual behavior of the AK". Marisa Fox-Bevilacqua reviewing the book that year for Haaretz, concludes by citing Polish journalist Konstanty Gebert, who hoped that the book would be translated to Polish, and who noted that "The merit of the book is to show how complex the attitudes of the underground towards Jews were". In 2016 Wojtek Rappak reviewing the book for the Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs called the book important and even excellent, noting that one of Zimmerman's goals in it is "to challenge what he takes to be a long-established and overwhelmingly negative view of the Polish Underground, especially among “professional Jewish historians”", as well as unquestioning accounts found in Polish historiography which present the said underground as "heroic and noble resistance movement" with no room for criticism. Also in 2016, Michael Meng writing for the The American Historical Review noted that the book tackles a "difficult and sensitive topic", and that the author "made a significant contribution to the historiography of Polish-Jewish relations." That year, Michael Berenbaum in his review of the book for the Holocaust and Genocide Studies wrote that the book is "timely... useful... and... good". He notes it will upset both "Polish apologist historians" but also Jewish ones "who seek simple answers". He also cautioned about selective reading of the book, noting that it has the sections dedicated to to the topics of rescue of Jews by the Poles, as well as on the . Reviewing the book in 2018 for The Polish Review, Theodore R. Weeks called the book "a remarkably fair, objective and scholarly monograph" in a controversial topic area. Also that year, reviewing the book for the H-Net, Jadwiga Biskupska called it an "essential reading for modern Polish history and the Holocaust" and also noted that it should be seen not just as a valuable contribution to those topics, but also to the literature on WWII resistance movements, on particular, the Polish Home Army.

James Roy (born in Trundle, New South Wales, 1968) is an Australian writer. He writes primarily for young adults and children, and in addition to his native Australia, his books are published in the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany and South Korea. Roy's parents were Seventh-day Adventist missionaries to Papua New Guinea and Fiji. Roy has often said that growing up in such an environment was key to his development as a writer. His first novel, Almost Wednesday, was published by University of Queensland Press in 1996, and since that time he has released more than twenty books, ranging from novels and short story collections to chapter books for young readers. Roy is a hard working and popular visitor to schools and festivals throughout Australia, where he conducts author talks and creative writing workshops across a wide range of audiences. He lives in the with his wife and two daughters.

The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945 is a 2015 book by Jewish American historian Joshua D. Zimmerman, focusing on the relationship between Polish resistance in World War II and the Jews. The book has received a number of reviews.