Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw
by Davies, Norman
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0333905687
- ISBN 13
- 9780333905685
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About This Item
London:Macmillan, 2003 0333905687. First edition. Third impression. Hardback. Fine/Fine. No annotations or inscriptions. DW not price clipped. Written by a historian with an unparalleled reputation in the Poland he analyses as an outsider. This is not just a magnificent account of the uprising itself. It covers the background to WWII in Poland and also the post-war years when Poland was run as a Soviet satellite, up to and beyond the collapse of the USSR. 752 pages including many significant appendices and index. 6" by 9.5". Numerous B/W photos and many maps. This is a heavy book which will require extra postage. .
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
- David Edward Hellawell
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1496
- Title
- Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw
- Author
- Davies, Norman
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0333905687
- ISBN 13
- 9780333905685
- Publisher
- London:Macmillan, 2003 0333905687
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 2003
- Keywords
- War History Poland Warsaw 1944 WWII Nazis Hitler Stalin Soviet Communism Military Politics Catholicism Resistance Insurgency QSE
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