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Author : Alexandra Richie
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374286558
Total Pages : 753 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)
Download or read book Warsaw 1944 written by Alexandra Richie and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-12-10 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History.
Author : Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739172700
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)
Download or read book Kaia, Heroine of the 1944 Warsaw Rising written by Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kaia, Heroine of the 1944 Warsaw Rising tells the story of one woman, whose life encompasses a century of Polish history. Full of tragic and compelling experiences such as life in Siberia, Warsaw before World War II, the German occupation, the Warsaw Rising, and life in the Soviet Ostashkov prison, Kaia was deeply involved with the battle that decimated Warsaw in 1944 as a member of the resistance army and the rebuilding of the city as an architect years later. Kaia's father was expelled from Poland for conspiring against the Russian czar. She spent her early childhood near Altaj Mountain and remembered Siberia as a "paradise". In 1922, the family returned to free Poland, the train trip taking a year. Kaia entered the school system, studied architecture, and joined the Armia Krajowa in 1942. After the legendary partisan Hubal's death, a courier gave Kaia the famous leader's Virtuti Militari Award to protect. She carried the medal for 54 years. After the Warsaw Rising collapsed, she was captured by the Russian NKVD in Bialystok and imprisoned. In one of many interrogations, a Russian asked about Hubal's award. When Kaia replied that it was a religious relic from her father, she received only a puzzled look from the interrogator. Knowing that another interrogation could end differently, she hid the award in the heel of her shoe where it was never discovered. In 1946, Kaia, very ill and weighing only 84 pounds, returned to Poland, where she regained her health and later worked as an architect to the rebuild the totally decimated Warsaw.
Author : Włodzimierz Borodziej
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299207304
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Warsaw Uprising of 1944 written by Włodzimierz Borodziej and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Author : Alexandra Richie
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466848472
Total Pages : 753 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)
Download or read book Warsaw 1944 written by Alexandra Richie and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2013-12-10 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historian Alexandra Rich presents the full untold story of how one of history's bravest revolts ended in one of its greatest crimes. In 1943, the Nazis liquidated Warsaw's Jewish ghetto. A year later, they threatened to complete the city's destruction by deporting its remaining residents. A sophisticated and cosmopolitan community a thousand years old was facing its final days—and then opportunity struck. As Soviet soldiers turned back the Nazi invasion of Russia and began pressing west, the underground Polish Home Army decided to act. Taking advantage of German disarray and seeking to forestall the absorption of their country into the Soviet empire, they chose to liberate the city of Warsaw for themselves. Warsaw 1944 tells the story of this brave, and errant, calculation. For more than sixty days, the Polish fighters took over large parts of the city and held off the SS's most brutal forces. But in the end, their efforts were doomed. Scorned by Stalin and unable to win significant support from the Western Allies, the Polish Home Army was left to face the full fury of Hitler, Himmler, and the SS. The crackdown that followed was among the most brutal episodes of history's most brutal war, and the celebrated historian Alexandra Richie depicts this tragedy in riveting detail. Using a rich trove of primary sources, Richie relates the terrible experiences of individuals who fought in the uprising and perished in it. Her clear-eyed narrative reveals the fraught choices and complex legacy of some of World War II's most unsung heroes.
Author : Zbigniew Czajkowski
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811713156
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)
Download or read book Warsaw 1944 written by Zbigniew Czajkowski and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A rare account of the gallant but doomed 1944 Warsaw Uprising." —Military History Monthly A tragic yet inspiring first-person account of the uprising of Polish fighters against their Nazi occupiers during World War II Memorable episodes include the author's escape from a German execution squad while his mother was murdered in the next room Captures the patriotism, courage, and determination of the Poles
Author : Alexandra Richie
Publisher : HarperPress
ISBN 13 : 9780007180417
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)
Download or read book Warsaw 1944 written by Alexandra Richie and published by HarperPress. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Warsaw Uprising of 1944 was a shocking event in a hideous war. This account recalls 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.
Author : Miron Bialoszewski
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590176979
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising written by Miron Bialoszewski and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On August 1, 1944, Miron Białoszewski, later to gain renown as one of Poland’s most innovative poets, went out to run an errand for his mother and ran into history. With Soviet forces on the outskirts of Warsaw, the Polish capital revolted against five years of Nazi occupation, an uprising that began in a spirit of heroic optimism. Sixty-three days later it came to a tragic end. The Nazis suppressed the insurgents ruthlessly, reducing Warsaw to rubble while slaughtering some 200,000 people, mostly through mass executions. The Red Army simply looked on. Białoszewski’s blow-by-blow account of the uprising brings it alive in all its desperate urgency. Here we are in the shoes of a young man slipping back and forth under German fire, dodging sniper bullets, collapsing with exhaustion, rescuing the wounded, burying the dead. An indispensable and unforgettable act of witness, A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising is also a major work of literature. Białoszewski writes in short, stabbing, splintered, breathless sentences attuned to “the glaring identity of ‘now.’” His pages are full of a white-knuckled poetry that resists the very destruction it records. Madeline G. Levine has extensively revised her 1977 translation, and passages that were unpublishable in Communist Poland have been restored.
Author : Evan McGilvray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1912174340
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)
Download or read book Days of Adversity written by Evan McGilvray and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a reexamination of the decisions regarding the 1944 Warsaw Uprising made by the leadership of the underground Polish Army (AK), as well as the questionable attitudes of senior Polish commanders in exile in London. The questions raised are, was the uprising necessary and why was it so poorly conducted by a totally indifferent leadership? The challenge is made that the Polish leaders in Warsaw and in London were clearly unfeeling. In Warsaw the uprising was allowed to happen and was doomed from the very beginning owing to poor generalship. The Soviets can be seen rather than to have betrayed the Poles, to have behaved in the same manner as they had always behaved to the Poles and Poland, that is underhanded and with great deceit. Therefore why did the Warsaw Poles rise up when encouraged by the Soviets? The Poles should have known that it was a trick. Despite plans laid down by the Allies to support such uprisings, as had been the case in Paris during August 1944, the Red Army watched the AK be destroyed by the Germans, to save themselves the same job. Once the uprising failed, the Polish leadership went into what could only be described as ‘genteel’ captivity, compared with the fate of hundreds of thousands of their countrymen and women who were herded out of Warsaw by German armed forces and sent to concentration camps, illegal prisoner of war camps or forced into slave labor. In the West senior Polish commanders did not consider a 100% casualty rate to be unacceptable as they pushed for Allied flights to resupply Warsaw. This callous disregard for life was part of the lack of understanding in the leadership of the reality of the Polish situation in 1944: the war was not about Poland but the complete defeat of Germany. If Polish freedom came out of this, then good, otherwise the Allies were not going to be diverted from the constant aerial bombardment of Germany, as the Allies swept eastward and westward towards Germany. This work is supplemented with Polish sources as well as interviews with five women who had been involved in the Warsaw Uprising as young women and girls in 1944. Now in their 80s these ladies kindly granted interviews with the author in Poland during 2012.
Author : Janusz Kazimierz Zawodny
Publisher : Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)
Download or read book Nothing But Honour written by Janusz Kazimierz Zawodny and published by Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beskrivelse af den polske opstand mod den tyske besættelse i Warszawa, august 1944, af en polsk deltager. Vægt både på kamphandlingerne i byen, deres forudsætninger og resultater, såvel som på de diplomatiske forhold i den forbindelse.
Author : Jan M. Ciechanowski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521894418
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Warsaw Rising of 1944 written by Jan M. Ciechanowski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-16 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did the Polish underground Home Army call for what proved to be a suicidal uprising? Why did they decide that their poorly armed troops should alone liberate Warsaw shortly before the Soviet entry into the capital? Why were the approaching Russians not informed? Why did the Red Army fail to take Warsaw in the first days of August 1944 as both Stalin and Bor-Kornorowski had anticipated? Dr Ciechanowski examines in detail the political, diplomatic, ideological and military background of the Rising and the events and decisions which immediately preceded it. He traces in turn: the main aspects of Polish politics, strategy and diplomacy during the whole of the Second World War. It is based primarily on unpublished Polish contemporary documents and on interviews with highly placed participants in, and witnesses of, the Warsaw Rising. It provides a definitive account of why the Rising took place and is an extremely important contribution to the history of the Second World War.
