Building the Barricade

Building the Barricade, harrowing and demanding, here takes its place in English among the twentieth century's master works of war-witness."--Jane HirshfieldBuilding the Barricade, is poetry of witness, and a lyric account of the sixty-three day Warsaw uprising.Caught between German occupation and the advancing Soviets, the Polish Resistance Home Army barricaded central Warsaw in hopes of liberating the city and gaining Polish sovereignty. Building the Barricade is Anna Świrszczyńska's first-person account of the atrocities that destroyed over 60% of the Polish capital and left over 100,000 civilians and 16,000 Polish resistance fighters dead.Świrszczyńska had joined the resistance as a military nurse and later wrote: "Day and night German bombers raged over the capital, burying the living beneath the rubble."

General

Imprint:	White Pine Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2023
Authors:	Anna Świrszczyńska
Translators:	Piotr Florczyk
Introduction by:	Eavan Boland
Dimensions:	139 x 215mm (L x W)
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-1-945680-68-7
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-945680-68-7
Barcode:	9781945680687

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