Alexandra Richie

Warsaw 1944

Hitler, Himmler and the Crushing of a City

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The traumatic story of one of the last major battles of World War II, in which the Poles fought off German troops and police, street by street, for sixty-three days.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 704
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 126mm x 53mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9780007180431
• ISBN-10: 0007180438
• Artikelnr.: 40678113

Autorenporträt

Alexandra Richie

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
List of Illustrations ix
List of Maps xi
Introduction 1
1 Byelorussian Prelude 21
2 To the Very Gates of Warsaw 56
3 Ostpolitik 104
4 Resistance 141
5 The Uprising Begins 189
6 'Himmler Has Won' 224
7 The Massacre in Wola 255
8 The Fate of Ochota 308
9 'Mountains of Corpses' 360
10 Hitler's War Against the Old Town 396
11 The Allies, Hitler and the Battle for Czerniaków 475
12 The End Game 553
Conclusion 628
Author's Note and Acknowledgements 651
Guide to Polish Pronunciation 653
German Ranks 655
Notes 657
Bibliography 687
Index 717