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Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw
Author: Norman Davies
Binding: Hardcover
Published: 06 May, 2004
ISBN: 0670032840
$22.41
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Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw
by: Norman Davies
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Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.3 / 5.0 
Finally the world is learning: 
I'm very happy that mr Norman Davies is writing all those books about Poland.Poland used to be one of the biggest Nations in Europe(for a long time the biggest)yet ,because of the cold war nobody knows much about it's history.
I have been studying central european history and was always amazed how little people knew about country such as Poland.When it comes to Poland's role in WW2 it must be one of the most underrated.Poles fought in pretty much every major campaign(look at the 303 squadron in battle of... more info
Anglo arrogance in name altering: 
Norman Davies' detailed and well-researched account of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 against the Nazis is a major contribution to World War II history. The heroism of the Rising is much underappreciated, as is the malice of the Soviets and inaction of the Americans and British in relation to supporting it. Davies helps to set the record straight. However, this otherwise fine book is marred by Davies' odd decision to alter Polish personal and place names, supposedly to make them more acceptable to English... more info
The second Warsaw Uprising:
The author of this work is very correct: most people think that the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943 was the one and only in that city. Of course, the rising in 1944 was of much more consequence to the history of Eastern Europe, even if both were tragedies. This extremely well-written book outlines the history both before, during and after the '44 rising, and the great detail shows that there was a deliberate ignoring of the plight of the Polish patriots by their Western allies, with a stalling on the part of... more info
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