Book contents
- Survivors
- Maps
- Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
- Survivors
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Warsaw Besieged
- 2 The Killing Years
- 3 Pawiak Prison
- 4 The Warsaw Ghetto
- 5 Information Wars
- 6 School of Hard Knocks
- 7 Matters of Faith
- 8 Spoiling for a Fight
- 9 Home Army on the Offensive
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 January 2022
- Survivors
- Maps
- Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
- Survivors
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Warsaw Besieged
- 2 The Killing Years
- 3 Pawiak Prison
- 4 The Warsaw Ghetto
- 5 Information Wars
- 6 School of Hard Knocks
- 7 Matters of Faith
- 8 Spoiling for a Fight
- 9 Home Army on the Offensive
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The Second World War destroyed the city of Warsaw. In summer 1939, it was a thriving metropolis, the “Paris of the East.” The expanding capital of a sovereign eastern European state, the Second Polish Republic, it formed the epicenter of Polish national and cultural life. By Christmas 1944 it was a mountain of rubble. Those who had built the first independent Polish state of the twentieth century and made Warsaw their home were dead, imprisoned, or exiled. They had lost their state, their city, and their home to Nazi German violence.
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- SurvivorsWarsaw under Nazi Occupation, pp. 1 - 21Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022