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Paperback. Pub Date :2011-08-01 Pages: 752 Language: English As Antony Beevor cast new light on the Battle of Stalingrad. Alexandra Richie here unearths the traumatic story of one of the last major battles of World War II. in which the Poles fought off German troops. street by street. for sixty-three days.The Warsaw Uprising of 1944 was a shocking event in a hideous war. This is the first account to recall the tragedy from both German and Polish perspectives and asks why. when the war was nearly lost. Hitler and Himmler returned to Warsaw bent on murder. deportation. and destruction.For the only time in European history a capital was entirely razed. Hundreds were thrown from windows. burned alive. shot and trampled to death. 40.000 were murdered on 5th August -. the largest battlefield massacre of the war.Using the vast archive of her combatant father-in-law Wladyslaw Bartos...
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Alexandra Richie is the author of Faust's Metropolis, a comprehensive cultural and political history of Berlin that Publishers Weekly named one of the top ten books of 1999. She currently lives in Warsaw with her husband, Wladyslaw Bartoszewski.
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“Deeply moving . . . A detailed narrative of the brutal crushing of the uprising as seen through civilian eyes . . . "Warsaw 1944" is an important contribution to a tragic literature.” ―The Wall Street Journal
“Engrossing ... A massively researched, profoundly unsettling work revealing how the battle for Warsaw exposed the perfidy of East and West alike” ―Kirkus
“Richie's detailed and sympathetic history ... draws heavily on private archives and recounts many unpublished stories. Such survivors' testimony make it the definitive study of the uprising” ―The Economist
“Unusually well-placed to research and rehearse the story of that terrible event ... [Richie] offers a comprehensive narrative of the Polish experience” ―The Sunday Times (UK)
“Richie is an unrelenting storyteller: Page turns offer little respite for the reader in this grim and chilling book that delivers exhaustive and unforgettable details of this gruesome chapter of World War II.” ―Publisher's Weekly
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- PublisherChina Press
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 000718042X
- ISBN 13 9780007180424
- BindingPaperback
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