Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw by Davies, Norman

Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143035404)

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Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw by Davies, Norman

Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw

$22.00
Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw by Davies, Norman

Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw

$22.00
Format: Paperback
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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.



Author: Norman Davies
ISBN-10: 0143035401
ISBN-13: 9780143035404
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 10/04/2005
Pages: 848
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.57lbs
Size: 8.42h x 5.56w x 1.50d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 11/13/2005 pg. 60
By Norman Davies
By Norman Davies
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Norman Davies is a supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Historical Society, and Professor Emeritus at London University. His books include Europe: A History (a New York Times Notable Book), The Isles: A History, and the definitive history of Poland, God's Playground.

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