That the Nightingale Return: Memoir of the Polish Resistance, the Warsaw Uprising and German P.O.W. Camps - Brossura

Rowinski, Leokadia

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0786477369 ISBN 13: 9780786477364

Casa editrice: McFarland Publishing, 2013

Riassunto

On August 1, 1944, Leokadia Rowinski and fellow members of the Polish Resistance movement saw the culmination of their five years of training-the Warsaw Uprising. Six weeks later, she celebrated her twenty-first birthday. As a member of the Resistance, Rowinski witnessed firsthand the devastation that World War II brought to Poland. While continuing her schooling in the clandestine education system established upon German occupation, she worked in the Resistance's communication services, often dodging German snipers and soldiers to deliver military orders to Resistance leaders. She was captured by the Germans after the Warsaw Uprising and spent six months in P.O.W. camps before being liberated by the Polish 1st Armored Division, an expatriate army under British command that included her future husband. This poignant story of a young woman's coming of age in war is a vivid reminder of the horror inflicted upon Poland in World War II and beyond.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: McFarland Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0786477369
• ISBN 13: 9780786477364
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 172