Monday, December 16, 2013

Warsaw 1944 - An Insurgent's Journal of the Uprising, Zbigniew Czajkowski.

Warsaw 1944 - An Insurgent's Journal of the Uprising, Zbigniew Czajkowski.

The wartime journal of a teenage Polish fighter who took part in the Warsaw uprising of 1944 and was one of only three in his ten-strong squad to survive the battle. Written just after the fighting it takes us down into the streets and sewers of Warsaw as the brave but doomed uprising struggled to hold off the Germans in the vain hope that the Soviets would liberate the city.
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