Warsaw 1944: Hitler, Himmler and the Crushing of a City
Author: Richie, Alexandra
ISBN: 9780007180431
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Year First Published: 2014
Pages: 704
Dimensions: 197mm x 128mm x 45mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
The traumatic story of one of the last major battles of World War II, in which the Poles fought off German troops and police, street by street, for sixty-three days.
Warsaw 1944 tells the story of one of history’s bravest revolts and of how this errant calculation ended in one of its greatest crimes. As Soviet soldiers turned back the Nazi invasion of Russia and began pressing west, the Underground Polish Home Army rose to fight and to liberate the city of Warsaw for themselves. For more than sixty days, Polish fighters took over large parts of the city and held off the SS’s most brutal forces. But the German retaliation was monstrous.
This book is the first to recount the bravery, misjudgement, breakdown and tragedy from German and Polish perspectives and asks why, when the war was nearly lost, Hitler diverted Himmler’s savage ‘Bandit Hunters’ from the east to raze Warsaw to the ground. Drawing upon a rich trove of primary sources including her father-in-law, a Polish combatant Alexandra Richie relates the terrible experiences of individuals who fought in the uprising, revealing the fraught choices of some of the war’s most unsung heroes. It is also the story of a city’s unbreakable spirit in the face of unspeakable barbarism.
ISBN: 9780007180431
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Year First Published: 2014
Pages: 704
Dimensions: 197mm x 128mm x 45mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
The traumatic story of one of the last major battles of World War II, in which the Poles fought off German troops and police, street by street, for sixty-three days.
Warsaw 1944 tells the story of one of history’s bravest revolts and of how this errant calculation ended in one of its greatest crimes. As Soviet soldiers turned back the Nazi invasion of Russia and began pressing west, the Underground Polish Home Army rose to fight and to liberate the city of Warsaw for themselves. For more than sixty days, Polish fighters took over large parts of the city and held off the SS’s most brutal forces. But the German retaliation was monstrous.
This book is the first to recount the bravery, misjudgement, breakdown and tragedy from German and Polish perspectives and asks why, when the war was nearly lost, Hitler diverted Himmler’s savage ‘Bandit Hunters’ from the east to raze Warsaw to the ground. Drawing upon a rich trove of primary sources including her father-in-law, a Polish combatant Alexandra Richie relates the terrible experiences of individuals who fought in the uprising, revealing the fraught choices of some of the war’s most unsung heroes. It is also the story of a city’s unbreakable spirit in the face of unspeakable barbarism.
