Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw

　　In August 1944, encouraged by the advance of the Red Army, the Polish Resistance poured forty thousand fighters into the streets of Warsaw to reclaim the city from the hated Germans. But Stalin condemned the uprising as a criminal venture. For sixty-three days the Wehrmacht methodically set about crushing the rebellion and destroying the city. 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 pivotal importance to the outcome of World War II and the Cold War that followed.

One of the most dramatic and shameful episodes in World War II was the doomed Warsaw uprising of 1944—an uprising that failed be　　cause the Allies betrayed it. Now that story comes to its full terrible life in this gripping account by the bestselling historian Norman Davies.

　　Should be compulsory reading... Rips away at many of our lazy assumptions about the outcome of the Second World War. -- The Guardian, London

Foreword
List, of Illustrations
PART ONE
Before the Rising
PART TWO
The Rising
 PART THREE
After the Rising
Appendices
Notes
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