| Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw Contributor(s): Davies, Norman (Author) |
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ISBN: 0143035401 ISBN-13: 9780143035404 Publisher: Penguin Books OUR PRICE: $19.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2005 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Military - World War Ii - History | Eastern Europe - General - History | Holocaust |
| Dewey: 940.531 |
| Physical Information: 1.5" H x 5.56" W x 8.42" (1.57 lbs) 848 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1940's - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |