David Crowley reveals Warsaw`s visual & urban cultural history through narrative & anecdote, examining how Warsaw has been shaped by Communist ideology since the late 1940s & then transformed by the market economy being introduced in 1989. As Crowley guides us through this damaged, yet encouraging, city we see how its citizens use & develop their living areas, yet hang on to the past by retelling the stories of myths & curses that mark the buildings. ...

Warsaw on a street plan at 1:15, 000 from Falk Verlag, with an enlargement showing the city centre. Metro stations are clearly marked & the map also shows tram & bus routes with stops & line numbers. The plan covers most of the city without its outer districts. Principal traffic arteries are highlighted, one way streets are marked & within the city centre car parks are also shown. Numerous public buildings, monuments, etc, are named. A separate inset shows the city centre, including the Old Town, enlarged & with more detail. Map legend

Includes:: English. Street index is on the reverse, together with lists of various organizations, services, etc, with their contact details. Also provided is a diagram of the metro & suburban rail networks, plus a map of the city

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Indexed street plan of Warsaw with an enlargement for the historic Old Town & a small map of the city with its outer districts. The plan has clear, easy to read cartography with names in large print & easy to see symbols highlighting various places of interest & facilities. Tram routes are shown with stops & line numbers. Metro stops (including for the new Line 2) & railway stations are prominently marked. One way streets are indicated. Symbols highlight numerous hotels (with their names), museums & monuments, theatres, embassies, petrol stations, etc. Coverage extends from Warsaw West railway station to Warsaw East on the right bank of the Vistula, & from northern Mokotów to the Citadel in the Zoliborz district but, unfortunately, an enlargement showing the historic Old Town cuts off part of Lazienki, Warsaw’s most beautiful park. The plan has an index of streets, a diagram of the metro & rail connections, & a small map showing the city within the proposed ring-road with road & rail routes, including access to the international airport. ...

The traumatic story of one of the last major battles of World War II, in which the Poles fought off German troops & police, street by street, for sixty-three days. The Warsaw Uprising of August 1944 was a shocking event in a hideous war. This is the first account to recall the tragedy from both German & Polish perspectives & asks why, when the war was nearly lost, Hitler & Himmler decided to return to Warsaw bent on murder, deportation, & destruction. This was the only time in history that a European capital has ever been emptied of its entire population & destroyed entirely. Hundreds were thrown from windows, burned alive, trampled to death. The murder of 40, 000 innocents on 5th August was the largest battlefield massacre of the war. But the Poles did not give in. Organized & popular, the Uprising, which had been expected to last under a week, fought off German troops including Himmler`s most notorious SS battalions street by street, for sixty-three days. Using first-hand accounts, Richie charts the atrocities & the breakdown of SS morale, but she also goes on to examine the long-term implications of Stalin`s refusal to help & how the Uprising affected negotiations over the fate of post-war Europe, sowing the seeds of the Cold War. But above all else ` Warsaw 1944` is the story of a city`s unbreakable spirit, in the face of unspeakable barbarism. ...

As Antony Beevor cast new light on the Battle of Stalingrad, Alexandra Richie here unearths the traumatic story of one of the last major battles of World War II, in which the Poles fought off German troops, street by street, for sixty-three days. The Warsaw Uprising of August 1944 was a shocking event in a hideous war. This is the first account to recall the tragedy from both German & Polish perspectives & asks why, when the war was nearly lost & resources were so urgently needed in the Fatherl&, Hitler & Himmler decided to return to Warsaw bent on murder, deportation, & destruction. This was the only time in history that a European capital has ever been emptied of its entire population & destroyed street by street, house by house, razed leaving acres of smouldering ruin. Hundreds were thrown from windows, burned alive, trampled to death. The murder of 40, 000 innocents on 5th August was the largest battlefield massacre of the war. But the Poles did not give in. Organized & popular, the Uprising, which had been expected to last under a week, fought off German troops including Himmler`s most notorious SS battalions street by street, for sixty-three days. Alexandra Richie is connected to this story through her father-in-law Wladyslaw Bartoszewski who participated in the Uprising & whose vast archive forms the basis of the book, The book charts Nazi crimes but also through the testimony of a Pole press-ganged into a `cremation detail` who, by living amongst them witnessed the break-down of morale in the SS at the end of the war. Dr Richie puts the Uprising in context of the collapse of Army Group Centre & the now forgotten battles which raged around Warsaw in the summer of 1944. She looks at the implications of Stalin`s refusal to help the beleaguered Poles & shows for the first time how the Nazi leadership, & Himmler in particular, hoped that the increasing divisions between the Allies over Warsaw would lead to a Third World War. She also shows how the Uprising affected negotiations over the fate of post- war Europe & is rightly called the first battle of the Cold War. But above all else ` Warsaw 1944` is the story of a city`s unbreakable spirit, in the face of unspeakable barbarism. ...

A series of maps, following the trail of the most beautiful cycling routes across Poland at 1:100, 000 scale, include:
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A series of maps, following the trail of the most beautiful cycling routes across Poland at 1:100, 000 scale, include:
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Warsaw Boy is the remarkable true story of a sixteen-year old boy soldier in war-torn Pol&. ” The best-ever account of what is was like to be young & fighting in the Warsaw Rising.” (Neal Ascherson, Sunday Herald, Books of the Year). Poland suffered terribly under the Nazis. By the end of the war six million had been killed: some were innocent civilians
- half of them were Jews
- but the rest died as a result of a ferocious guerrilla war the Poles had waged. On 1 August 1944 Andrew Borowiec, a fifteen-year-old volunteer in the Resistance, lobbed a grenade through the shattered window of a Warsaw apartment block onto some German soldiers running below. `I felt I had come of age. I was a soldier & I`d just tried to kill some of our enemies`. The Warsaw Uprising lasted for 63 days: Himmler described it as `the worst street fighting since Stalingrad`. Yet for the most part the insurgents were poorly equipped local men & teenagers
- some of them were even younger than Andrew. Over that summer Andrew faced danger at every moment, both above & below ground as the Poles took to the city`s sewers to creep beneath the German lines during lulls in the fierce counterattacks. Wounded in a fire fight the day after his sixteenth birthday & unable to face another visit to the sewers, he was captured as he lay in a makeshift cellar hospital wondering whether he was about to be shot or saved. Here he learned a lesson: there were decent Germans as well as bad. From one of the most harrowing episodes of the Second World War, this is an extraordinary tale of survival & defiance recounted by one of the few remaining veterans of Poland`s bravest summer. Andrew Borowiec dedicates this book to all the Warsaw boys, `especially those who never grew up`. ”A subtle, well observered autobiography. Beautifully paced.” (The Times). ”A timely, angry, terribly moving & drily amusing account of an especially dark period in Poland`s often tragic history.” (Telegraph). ” Excellent, hugely engaging. For all the horrors that Borowiec describes, his is an affectionate, wryly amusing account puntuated by episodes of warmth & humanity.” (Financial Times). Andrew Borowiec was born at Lodz in Poland in 1928. At fifteen he joined the Home Army, the main Polish resistance during the Second World War, & fought in the ill-fated Warsaw Uprising. After the war he left Poland & attended Columbia University`s Graduate School of Journalism. He lives in Cyprus with his English wife Juliet.


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Warsaw at 1:15, 000 on a pocket-size street plan from Mair Dumont printed on durable, waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper, with an enlargement presenting the city centre in greater detail, metro stations clearly marked & the whole network also presented on a separate diagram, tram & bus routes shown with stops & line numbers, lists of useful addresses, etc. Warsaw’s city centre is presented in greater detail on an enlargement at 1:10, 000. Tram & bus routes are shown with stops & line numbers, & metro stations are clearly marked. For drivers the plan indicates one way streets & pedestrianized areas. Important buildings & places of interest are highlighted & annotated with their Polish names. Multilingual map legend

Includes:: English. The index is on the reverse side &

Includes:: lists of useful contact details for tourist information offices, hotel reservation, car hire, places of entertainment, emergency services, etc. The map also

Includes:: a diagram of the city’s metro network & a small road map of its environs.





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This is the savvy city breakers' pocket guide to seeing & doing more in the Polish capital
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