Fighting Warsaw: The Story of the Polish Underground State, 1939-1945

Fighting Warsaw: The Story of the Polish Underground State, 1939-1945
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Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Total Pages : 757
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ISBN-10 : 9781786258731
ISBN-13 : 1786258730
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Book Synopsis Fighting Warsaw: The Story of the Polish Underground State, 1939-1945 by : Stefan Korbonski

Download or read book Fighting Warsaw: The Story of the Polish Underground State, 1939-1945 written by Stefan Korbonski and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-28 with total page 757 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fighting Warsaw is a human story. Stefan Korbonski, the leader of the Polish Underground State, portrays the years of the German occupation during the Second World War and the beginning of anti-Soviet underground activities thereafter. His story presents the entire organization, strategy, and tactics of the Polish underground, which included armed resistance, civil disobedience, sabotage, and boycotts. “...The Polish Underground was perhaps the best organized and most active of all wartime undergrounds; and Stefan Korbonski is well qualified to tell its story....He was, almost immediately after the fighting had stopped, arrested by the Russians...he managed to regain his freedom, and it is to this happy release that we owe this book, an absorbing account of Poland’s fight for freedom These are the highly personal memoirs of an active conspirator and, in their vivid detail and exciting anecdotes, they are probably more successful in conveying a sense of what the resistance was actually like than a more comprehensive treatment would be...Few people who read the author’s chapters on this one aspect of the resistance will fail to be moved by them or to come away from them with an increased understanding of the prerequisites of successful opposition to an occupying power that is both efficient and ruthless.”—GORDON CRAIG, New York Herald Tribune “...Fighting Warsaw...is one of the most absorbing, inspiring and ultimately disheartening documents to come out of the last war....The book, which is detailed and written with humor, modesty, and a surprising lack of rancor, makes it quite plain that there is an indomitable quality in the Poles that will prevent them from ever giving up their great dream....”—The New Yorker


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