The Warsaw Uprising of 1944 dramatically tells the largely unknown story of the Warsaw resistance movement during World War II. Desperate to free themselves from German military oppression but also hoping to show the advancing Soviets that they could not impose easy rule upon the citizens of Warsaw, the Poles launched an almost hopeless attack against the Germans on August 1, 1944. Wlodzimierz Borodziej presents an evenhanded account of what is commonly considered the darkest chapter in Polish history during World War II. In only sixty-three days, the Germans razed Warsaw to the ground and 200,000 people, mostly civilians, lost their lives. The result—a heroic and historically pivotal turning point—meant that the Poles would lose both their capital and an entire generation. This concise account of the trauma—little known to English-speaking readers—will appeal to anyone interested in the history of World War II in general and is a must-read for students of Polish history in particular.

The Warsaw Uprising of 1944

History

Borodziej, Włodzimierz

Europe

University of Wisconsin Press

Forgotten Wars: Central and Eastern Europe, 1912–1916 (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare)

Górny, Maciej

Military

Cambridge University Press

W&#322;odzimierz Borodziej and Maciej Górny set out to salvage the historical memory of the experience of war in the lands between Riga and Skopje, beginning with the two Balkan conflicts of 1912-1913 and ending with the death of Emperor Franz Joseph in 1916. The First World War in the East and South-East of Europe was fought by people from a multitude of different nationalities, most of them dressed in the uniforms of three imperial armies: Russian, German, and Austro-Hungarian. In this first volume of Forgotten Wars, the authors chart the origins and outbreak of the First World War, the early battles, and the war's impact on ordinary soldiers and civilians through to the end of the Romanian campaign in December 1916, by which point the Central Powers controlled all of the Balkans except for the Peloponnese. Combining military and social history, the authors make extensive use of eyewitness accounts to describe the traumatic experience that established a region stretching between the Baltic, Adriatic, and Black Seas.

Forgotten Wars (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare)

Der Warschauer Aufstand 1944 (Fischer Taschenbücher Allgemeine Reihe)

FISCHER Taschenbuch

Der vergessene Weltkrieg: Europas Osten 1912-1923

wbg Theiss

Terror i polityka: Policja niemiecka a polski ruch oporu w GG 1939-1944 (Polish Edition)

Instytut Wydawniczy Pax

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