num_pages: 160
description: 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?***Warsaw Rising is part of Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century, and is Book #5 in the Politics in Action book series.
language: English
title: Warsaw Rising
titlecomplete: Warsaw Rising (Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century: Politics in Action No. 5)
genres: War, History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 17
publisher: Ballantine Books, Inc.