{"product_id":"building-the-barricade-anna-wirszczyska-9781945680687","title":"Building the Barricade","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuilding the Barricade\u003c\/i\u003e, harrowing and demanding, here takes its place in English among the twentieth century's master works of war-witness.\"--Jane Hirshfield\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuilding the Barricade\u003c\/i\u003e, is poetry of witness, and a lyric account of the sixty-three day Warsaw uprising.\u003c\/b\u003eCaught between German occupation and the advancing Soviets, the Polish Resistance Home Army barricaded central Warsaw in hopes of liberating the city and gaining Polish sovereignty. \u003ci\u003eBuilding the Barricade\u003c\/i\u003e is Anna Świrszczyńska's first-person account of the atrocities that destroyed over 60% of the Polish capital and left over 100,000 civilians and 16,000 Polish resistance fighters dead.Świrszczyńska had joined the resistance as a military nurse and later wrote: \"Day and night German bombers raged over the capital, burying the living beneath the rubble.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anna Świrszczyńska\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1945680687\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781945680687\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e White Pine Press (NY)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/26\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.70d","brand":"Anna \u0026#346;wirszczy\u0026#324;ska","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44254886953215,"sku":"9781945680687","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a58b7fc2-18ae-446a-a6ce-bcffdd3bce9d.jpg?v=1694614895","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/building-the-barricade-anna-wirszczyska-9781945680687","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}