Rising '44 : The Battle for Warsaw Paperback - 2005
by Davies, Norman
- Used
In a brilliant narrative of one of the most dramatic episodes in twentieth-century history, Davies spotlights sixty-three days in 1944 when the Wehrmacht crushed the Polish Resistance in Warsaw, slaughtered thousands and destroyed the city.
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Details
- Title Rising '44 : The Battle for Warsaw
- Author Davies, Norman
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 848
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group
- Date 2005-10-04
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 6072527-6
- ISBN 9780143035404 / 0143035401
- Weight 1.57 lbs (0.71 kg)
- Dimensions 8.42 x 5.56 x 1.5 in (21.39 x 14.12 x 3.81 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Cultural Region: Eastern Europe
- Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
- Topical: Holocaust
- Library of Congress subjects Poland - History - Occupation, 1939-1945, Warsaw (Poland) - History - Uprising, 1944
- Dewey Decimal Code 940.531
Summary
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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- New York Times, 11/13/2005, Page 60
