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Written by a survivor of the Warsaw Uprising, this book examines the background of the ill-fated 63-day uprising that pitted poorly armed Polish civilians and volunteers against Hitler's well-armed and veteran forces. Borowiec also examines Stalin's decision to stand by while Warsaw and its defenders were destroyed.
Borowiec provides a day-by-day account of the combat and the efforts to resupply the partisans by Allied aircraft. In this, the first English-language history of the Uprising, Borowiec relies on his own experiences, those of other participants, and other materials not usually available to Western scholars and researchers interested in World War II. His firsthand account brings those 63 days to life.
List of contents
Prologue
A Tragic Heritage
The Conspiracy
"The Poles Shall be Slaves"
The Secret Army
Death of the Warsaw Ghetto
Operation Storm
Warsaw on Fire
"Kill Anyone You Want"
A Battle for Survival
Alone in the Ruins
Condemned by Stalin
The End of Agony
Epilogue
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Bibliography
Index
About the author
ANDREW BOROWIEC took part in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising and after his liberation from a prisoner-of-war camp emigrated to the United States. A veteran foreign correspondent, he now writes for
The Washington Times. He is the author of political studies on Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, and Tunisia, published by Praeger.
