On August 1, 1944, Miron Bialoszewski, later to gain renown as one of Poland's most innovative poets, went out to run an errand for his mother and ran into history. With Soviet forces on the outskirts of Warsaw, the Polish capital revolted against five years of Nazi occupation, an uprising that began in a spirit of heroic optimism. Sixty-three days later it came to a tragic end. The Nazis suppressed the insurgents ruthlessly, reducing Warsaw to rubble while slaughtering some 200,000 people, mostly through mass executions. The Red Army simply looked on. Bialoszewski's blow-by-blow account of th A Memoir Of The Warsaw Uprising - Madeline Levine, Miron Bialoszewski od authora Madeline Levine, Miron Bialoszewski a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
Autor |
Madeline Levine, Miron Bialoszewski |
Jazyk |
anglický |
Počet stran |
256 |
Rok vydání |
2015 |
Nakladatelství |
The New York Review of Books |