Rising '44
The Battle for Warsaw
By Norman Davies
August 2004
Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 0330488635
776 pages, Illustrated, 5" x 7 ¾"
$26.50 Paper Original
In August 1944 the beleaguered people of Warsaw believed that liberation was at hand. Determined to drive the Germans out, the Resistance poured thousands of armed fighters into the streets, where for sixty-three days 'The Battle for Warsaw' raged in the cellars and the sewers and defenseless civilians were slaughtered in their tens of thousands.
Yet Stalin condemned the Rising as a criminal adventure and refused to come to their aid, and Poland's Western Allies regretfully decided that there was little to be done. This book examines the events that have been suppressed and misrepresented for over half a century, to reveal the true scale of a sacrifice that saw one of Europe's ancient capitals razed by the Wehrmacht as Soviet troops looked on. Pivotal in the outcome of the Second World War and in the origins of the Cold War, the tragedy of the Warsaw Rising occupies a unique place in the twentieth-century history.
About the Author: Norman Davies is the bestselling author of Europe: A History and The Isles: A History. He is also the author of the definitive history of Poland, God's Playground, and several books on European history. Davies is a graduate of Magdalen College, Oxford and the University of Sussex. He is a Supernumerary Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford and is a Fellow of the British Academy, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and Professor Emeritus of London University.
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