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Rising '44 - The Battle for Warsaw (Paperback)
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Rising '44 - The Battle for Warsaw (Paperback)
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Loot Price R533
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Rising '44 is a brilliant narrative account of one of the most
dramatic episodes in 20th century history, drawing on Davies'
unique understanding of the issues and characters involved. In
August 1944 Warsaw offered the Wehrmacht the last line of defence
against the Red Army's march from Moscow to Berlin. When the Red
Army reached the river Vistula, the people of Warsaw believed that
liberation had come. The Resistance took to the streets in
celebration, but the Soviets remained where they were, allowing the
Wehrmacht time to regroup and Hitler to order that the city of
Warsaw be razed to the ground. For 63 days the Resistance fought on
in the cellars and the sewers. Defenceless citizens were
slaughtered in their tens of thousands. One by one the City's
monuments were reduced to rubble, watched by Soviet troops on the
other bank of the river. The Allies expressed regret but decided
that there was nothing to be done, Poland would not be allowed to
be governed by Poles. The sacrifice was in vain and the Soviet
tanks rolled in to the flattened city. It is a hugely dramatic
story, vividly and authoritatively told by one of our greatest
historians.
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