On August 1, 1944, Miron Bialoszewski . . . went out to run an errand for his mother and ran into history. With Soviet forces on the outskirts of Warsaw, the Polish capital revolted against five years of Nazi occupation, an uprising that began in a spirit of heroic optimism. Sixty-three days later it came to a tragic end. The Nazis suppressed the insurgents ruthlessly, reducing Warsaw to rubble while slaughtering some 200,000 people, mostly through mass executions. The Red Army simply looked on.
Monday, February 12, 2018
THE WARSAW UPRISING
Miron Bialoszewski, A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising, translated from the Polish with an introduction and notes by Madeline G. Levine (New York: New York Review Books Classics, 2017). From the back cover:
