Warsaw Rising (Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century: Politics in Action, No. 5)

157 pp. In August 1944, as Russian forces approached Warsaw, the Poles rose with enthusiasm to liberate their capital city from the German oppressors. There were confronted by a force of 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'