A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising [Audiobook] download free by Miron Bialoszewski
- Listen audiobook: A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising
- Author: Miron Bialoszewski
- Release date: 2015/5/30
- Publisher: THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, INC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Biography
- ISBN: 9781590176658
- Rating: 7.92 of 10
- Votes: 718
- Review by: Alaric Newman
- Review rating: 7.24 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/15
- Duration: 3H7M35S in 256 kbps (51.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-24
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, WMA, AAC, MPEG-4 DST, MP3, WAV, MPEG4 (compression TAR, TZ, TAR.Z, RAR, AZW4, ZIP, LZMA)
- Total pages original book: 256
- Includes a PDF summary of 22 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 16M2S (4.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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 '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 revised her 1977 translation, and passages that were unpublishable in Communist Poland have been restored.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Holocaust, Biography: Historical, Political & Military, Memoirs, World War 2 Books, 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000, European History
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 14.96 USD
- Dimensions: 128x204x15mm
- Weight: 293g
- Printed by: NYRB Classics
- Published in: New York, United States
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