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A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising (New York Review Books Classics) by Bialoszewski, Miron; Levine, Madeline G. is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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On August 1, 1944, Miron Białoszewski, later to gain renown as one of Poland’s most innovative poets, went out to run an errand for his mother and ran into history. With Soviet forces on the outskirts of Warsaw, the Polish capital revolted against five years of Nazi occupation, an uprising that began in a spirit of heroic optimism. Sixty-three days later it came to a tragic end. The Nazis suppressed the insurgents ruthlessly, reducing Warsaw to rubble while slaughtering some 200,000 people, mostly through mass executions. The Red Army simply looked on. Białoszewski’s blow-by-blow account of the uprising brings it alive in all its desperate urgency. Here we are in the shoes of a young man slipping back and forth under German fire, dodging sniper bullets, collapsing with exhaustion, rescuing the wounded, burying the dead. An indispensable and unforgettable act of witness, A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising is also a major work of literature. Białoszewski writes in short, stabbing, splintered, breathless sentences attuned to “the glaring identity of ‘now.’” His pages are full of a white-knuckled poetry that resists the very destruction it records. Madeline G. Levine has extensively revis

Who reads A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising (New York Review Books Classics)?

Author

Bialoszewski, Miron; Levine, Madeline G.

Publisher

New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781590176979

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Biography, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.5 / 5 (72 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14