Rising '44 : the battle for Warsaw : Davies, Norman, 1939- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive (original) (raw)

Originally published: London : Macmillan, 2003

Includes bibliographical references (pages 705-733) and index

Before the rising -- The allied coalition -- The German occupation -- Eastern approaches -- Resistance -- The rising -- The Warsaw rising -- Outbreak -- Impasse -- Attrition -- Junction -- Finale -- After the rising -- Vae Victis: Woe to the defeated, 1944-45 -- Stalinist repression, 1945-56 -- Echoes of the rising, 1956-2000 -- Interim report

An account of the August 1944 battle for Warsaw describes how the Polish Resistance mobilized to expel the Germans and discusses the consequences of Stalin's halting of the Russian offensive, a move that cost the lives of thousands of Polish citizens