In August 1944, encouraged by the advance of the Red Army, the
Polish Resistance poured forty thousand fighters into the streets
of Warsaw to reclaim the city from the hated Germans. But Stalin
condemned the uprising as a criminal venture. For sixty-three days
the Wehrmacht methodically set about crushing the rebellion and
destroying the city. Following the battle’s desperate progress
through the cellars and sewers of Warsaw, Rising ’44
retrieves its subject from the shadows of history, r
內容簡介:
One of the most dramatic and shameful episodes in World War II
來源:香港大書城megBookStore,http://www.megbook.com.hk was the doomed Warsaw uprising of 1944—an uprising that failed
because the Allies betrayed it. Now that story comes to its full
terrible life in this gripping account by the bestselling historian
Norman Davies.
關於作者:
Should be compulsory reading... Rips away at many of our lazy
assumptions about the outcome of the Second World War. -- The
Guardian, London
目錄:
Foreword
List, of Illustrations
PART ONE
Before the Rising
PART TWO
The Rising
PART THREE
After the Rising
Appendices
Notes
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