Rising '44 : the Battle for Warsaw / by Norman Davies
2004, First American Edition. New York : Viking. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 752 pages; Description: xxvi, 752 p. : ill. , maps ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [705]-733) and index. Originally published: London : Macmillan, 2003. Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 --Warsaw (Poland) --History --Uprising, 1944. Summary: 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 Stalin halted the Russian offensive, allowing the Wehrmacht to regroup and destroy the city. For sixty-three days Soviet troops and other Allied forces watched from the sidelines as tens of thousands of Poles were slaughtered and Warsaw was reduced to rubble. Item #154521
ISBN: 0670032840
Price: €18.50