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A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising

On August 1, 1944, Miron Bialoszewski, 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.Bialoszewski’™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. Bialoszewski writes in short, stabbing, splintered, breathless sentences attuned to ‘œthe glaring identity of ‘˜now.’™” His pages are full of a white-knuckled poetry that resists the very destruction it records.Initially translated by Madeline G. Levine during the USSR rule in 1977. This version has been extensively revised, again by Madeline, adding passages that were unpublishable under Communist Poland have been restored.

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