During the Second World War five brutal battles were fought in and
around Warsaw. Each proved to be dramatic, decisive and bloody, and
in this volume of the Images of War series Anthony Tucker-Jones
records them all in graphic detail. The first occurred in 1939 when
the Polish army was defeated by the German invaders, and five years
of occupation followed. The second was sparked by the Jewish Ghetto
Uprising in 1943 which was ruthlessly suppressed by 1,200 SS troops
and led to the deaths of 13,000 people. In the third the Red Army's
advance was beaten back at the gates of the city in the summer of
1944 and the fourth was fought at the same time when the Nazis
crushed the rising of the Polish Home Army and sought to destroy
the city in an act of revenge. The failure of the rising consigned
the country to decades of communist rule. The photographs and the
detailed narrative give the reader a powerful impression of the
experience of the people of Warsaw during this tragic period in
their history and document the widespread devastation the fighting
left in its wake.
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