Warsaw 1944 Hitler, Himmler, and the Warsaw Uprising

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 2013. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0374286558 . Spine lightly concave.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; B&W Photographs; 9.1 X 6.1 X 2.4 inches; 738 pages; "In 1943, the Nazis liquidated Warsaw's Jewish ghetto. A year later, they threatened to complete the city's destruction by deporting its remaining residents. A sophisticated and cosmopolitan community a thousand years old was facing its final days-and then opportunity struck. As Soviet soldiers turned back the Nazi invasion of Russia and began pressing west, the underground Polish Home Army decided to act. Taking advantage of German disarray and seeking to forestall the absorption of their country into the Soviet empire, they chose to liberate the city of Warsaw for themselves. Warsaw 1944 tells the story of this brave, and errant, calculation. For more than sixty days, the Polish fighters took over large parts of the city and held off the SS's most brutal forces. But in the end, their efforts were doomed." .