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Ukraine's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, has officially recognized as deportation the forced displacement of Ukrainians from ...
A masterful new history tells the story of the doomed 1944 Warsaw uprising as no other book yet has writes Ilana Bet-El—and the contemporary parallels are haunting. Poland and Syria do not ...
In "Warsaw 1944: Hitler, Himmler, and the Warsaw Uprising," Alexandra Richie offers a sympathetic portrait of the struggle waged by Polish insurgents and the civilians caught up in it.
Operation Tempest: Warsaw Rising On August 1, 1944, the Polish Resistance rose against their Nazi oppressors. The Warsaw Uprising was timed to coincide with a major Soviet offensive not far to the ...
Freedom for Warsaw was lost in its blazing ruins in 1944, freedom for Poland in 1945. Was the uprising worth it? Was the incredible bravery of Polish patriots worth it?
You’re going to hate it,” a friend in Warsaw told me last November, as I headed out one afternoon for the soft opening of the ...
But there was quite another upwelling of armed resistance in Warsaw a year later, and that’s the focus of “Warsaw 1944: Hitler, Himmler and the Warsaw Uprising” by Alexandra Richie (Farrar ...
US President Donald Trump’s visit to Poland brought to the fore comments about the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. Despite limited resources, combatants led by the Polish Home Army rose up in Warsaw and ...
At 5pm in central Warsaw, traffic came to a halt and pedestrians stopped for a minute's silence to remember insurgents and civilians who died in an uprising to liberate their city 80 years ago.