Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw » (Reprint)

Norman Davies is the bestselling author of Europe: A History and The Isles: A History, and the definitive history of Poland, God's Playground. He is a Supernumerary Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford, and Professor Emeritus of London University.

Not to be confused with the Ghetto Uprising of the year before, the Warsaw Rising of 1944 saw the Polish Resistance attempt to throw out the German occupiers only to be mercilessly crushed while the Soviet Army stood passively by. Before treating the events of the rising itself, Davies (emeritus, London U., UK) narrates the road leading up to the Rising from the separate perspectives of the Allies, the German occupiers, the Soviet Red Army, and the Polish Resistance, dealing with each in turn. He also explores the aftermath of the Rising up to the present time. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The New York Times - Carlo D'Este

… Rising '44 is much more than the story of the Warsaw uprising. It is one of the most savage indictments of Allied malfeasance yet leveled by a historian. Unsparing in his depictions of the slaughter of the Polish fighters and the destruction of their capital, Davies challenges the popular assumption that World War II was entirely the triumph of good over evil.