Rising '44 The Battle for Warsaw

Name: Rising '44 The Battle for Warsaw
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ISBN: 9780143035404

ISBN-10: 0143035401

ISBN-13: 9780143035404

Edition: N/A

Authors: Norman Davies

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One of the most dramatic and shameful episodes in World War II was the doomed Warsaw uprising of 1944an 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 battles desperate progress through the cellars and sewers of…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/4/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 848
Size: 5.45" wide x 8.40" long x 1.90" tall
Weight: 1.650
Language: English

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Foreword


List of Illustrations


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Before the Rising



The Allied Coalition



The German Occupation



Eastern Approaches



Resistance



The Rising



The Warsaw Rising


Outbreak


Impasse


Attrition


Junction


Finale



After the Rising



Vae Victis: Woe to the Defeated, 1944-45



Stalinist Repression, 1945-56



Echoes of the Rising, 1956-2000


Interim Report


Appendices


Notes


Notes to Capsules


Notes to Appendices


Index