Author: Joshua D. Zimmerman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-06-05
Total Pages: 473
ISBN-13: 1107014263
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Author: Stefan Korbonski
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Published: 2016-03-28
Total Pages: 757
ISBN-13: 1786258730
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Fighting Warsaw is a human story. Stefan Korbonski, the leader of the Polish Underground State, portrays the years of the German occupation during the Second World War and the beginning of anti-Soviet underground activities thereafter. His story presents the entire organization, strategy, and tactics of the Polish underground, which included armed resistance, civil disobedience, sabotage, and boycotts. “...The Polish Underground was perhaps the best organized and most active of all wartime undergrounds; and Stefan Korbonski is well qualified to tell its story....He was, almost immediately after the fighting had stopped, arrested by the Russians...he managed to regain his freedom, and it is to this happy release that we owe this book, an absorbing account of Poland’s fight for freedom These are the highly personal memoirs of an active conspirator and, in their vivid detail and exciting anecdotes, they are probably more successful in conveying a sense of what the resistance was actually like than a more comprehensive treatment would be...Few people who read the author’s chapters on this one aspect of the resistance will fail to be moved by them or to come away from them with an increased understanding of the prerequisites of successful opposition to an occupying power that is both efficient and ruthless.”—GORDON CRAIG, New York Herald Tribune “...Fighting Warsaw...is one of the most absorbing, inspiring and ultimately disheartening documents to come out of the last war....The book, which is detailed and written with humor, modesty, and a surprising lack of rancor, makes it quite plain that there is an indomitable quality in the Poles that will prevent them from ever giving up their great dream....”—The New Yorker
Author: Witold Sagajllo
Publisher: New York : Hippocrene Books
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 236
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Publisher: Warsaw : Interpress
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 226
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Leokadia Rowińska
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 192
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This poignant story of a young woman's coming of age in war time is a vivid reminder of the horror inflicted on Poland in WWII and beyond. As a member of the Polish Resistance, the author dodged snipers and soldiers to deliver military orders to Resistance leaders. She spent six months in German POW camps, until she was liberated by an army that included her future husband. Includes many bandw photos. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR