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In August 1944, Warsaw presented the last major obstacle to the Red Army?s triumphant march from Moscow to Berlin. When the Wehrmacht was pushed back to the Vistula River, the Polish Resistance poured forty thousand fighters into the streets to drive out the hated Germans. But... Read Full Overview

One of the most dramatic and shameful episodes in World War II 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. In... Read Full Overview

This story of the Warsaw Rising is written by the author of The Isles and Europe: A History, who is also the leading British authority on the history of poland. Rising '44 is a brilliant narrative account of one of the most dramatic episodes in 20th century history, drawing on... Read Full Overview