Warsaw Rising (Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century: Politics in Action No. 5)

In August 1944, as Russian forces approached Warsaw, the Poles rose with enthusiasm to liberate their capital city from the German oppressors. They were confronted by a force of the SS thugs and convicts, using methods of appalling brutality. After two months of heroic resistance they surrendered. Could the Russians have intervened to prevent the disaster?

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Warsaw Rising is part of Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century, and is Book #5 in the Politics in Action book series.