RISING '44: THE BATTLE FOR WARSAW
by Norman Davies
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- ISBN 10
- 0333905687
- ISBN 13
- 9780333905685
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Synopsis
One of the most dramatic and shameful episodes in World War II was the doomed Warsaw uprising of 1944—an uprising that failed because the Allies betrayed it. Now that story comes to its full terrible life in this gripping account by the bestselling historian Norman Davies. In August 1944, encouraged by the advance of the Red Army, the Polish Resistance poured forty thousand fighters into the streets of Warsaw to reclaim the city from the hated Germans. But Stalin condemned the uprising as a criminal venture. For sixty-three days the Wehrmacht methodically set about crushing the rebellion and destroying the city. Following the battle’s desperate progress through the cellars and sewers of Warsaw, Rising ’44 retrieves its subject from the shadows of history, revealing its pivotal importance to the outcome of World War II and the Cold War that followed.
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- Bookseller
- Military History Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 33247-02
- Title
- RISING '44: THE BATTLE FOR WARSAW
- Author
- Norman Davies
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0333905687
- ISBN 13
- 9780333905685
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 2003
- Keywords
- World War II - Eastern Front An account of the two month battle between Polish insurgents of the Home Army and the occupying Germans. It left the city in ruins and caused bitter controversy over the failure of the Allies to rescue the city. This account i
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