Fighting Warsaw : the story of the Polish underground state, 1939-1945
Korbonski, Stefan2004
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Fighting Warsaw is an extraordinary human story. The author, leader of the Polish Underground State, portrays the years of the German occupation during the second world war, and the beginning of the anti-Soviet underground activities thereafter.Fighting Warsaw is an extraordinary human story. The author, leader of the Polish Underground State, portrays the years of the German occupation during the second world war, and the beginning of the anti-Soviet underground activities thereafter. His story presents the entire organisation, strategy and tactics of the Polish underground, which included armed resistance, civil disobedience, sabotage, and boycotts. This new edition contains an introduction by his wife Zofia as well as 16 pages of previously unpublished personal photographs.
Main title:
Fighting Warsaw : the story of the Polish underground state, 1939-1945 / Stefan Korbonski ; with a new introduction by Zofia Korbonski ; translated from the original Polish by F.B. Czarnomski.
Edition:
1st Hippocrene Books pbk. ed.
Imprint:
New York : Hippocrene Books, 2004.
Collation:
495 p., [18] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: London : Allen & Unwin, 1956.
ISBN:
9780781810357 (pbk)
Dewey class:
940.53438
Language:
EnglishPolish
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BRN:
2063641
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