{"product_id":"a-memoir-of-the-warsaw-uprising","title":"A Memoir Of The Warsaw Uprising","description":"\u003csection class=\"overview\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOn 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.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBiałoszewski’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, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMadeline G. Levine has extensively revised her 1977 translation, and passages that were unpublishable in Communist Poland have been restored.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"more-link-wrap opened\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublished: USA, 2015\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePages: 257\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eLanguage: English\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN 13: 9781590176658\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN 10: 1590176650\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Miron Bialoszewski","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44827494875402,"sku":"","price":21.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/9780063341463_e0b988e7-c477-4a8a-8120-4dfcdff32a5c.jpg?v=1698491033","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/a-memoir-of-the-warsaw-uprising","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}