One of the most dramatic and shameful episodes in World War II was the doomedWarsaw uprising of 1944?an uprising that failed because the Allies betrayed it. Nowthat story comes to its full terrible life in this gripping account by the bestselling historianNorman Davies.
In August 1944, encouraged by the advance of the Red Army, the Polish Resistancepoured forty thousand fighters into the streets of Warsaw to reclaim the city from thehated Germans. But Stalin condemned the uprising as a criminal venture. For sixty-threedays the Wehrmacht methodically set about crushing the rebellion and destroying thecity. Following the battle?s desperate progress through the cellars and sewers of Warsaw,Rising ?44 retrieves its subject from the shadows of history, revealing its pivotalimportance to the outcome of World War II and the Cold War that followed.
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Should be compulsory reading... Rips away at many of our lazy assumptionsabout the outcome of the Second World War. -- The Guardian, London作者简介
Norman Davies is the bestselling author of Europe: A Historyand The Isles: A History, and the definitive history of Poland, God?sPlayground. He is a Supernumerary Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford, andProfessor Emeritus of London University.
| 出版社 | Penguin |
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| 作者 | Norman Davies |