Research Catalog

Title

A memoir of the Warsaw uprising / by Miron Białoszewski ; edited and translated by Madeline G. Levine.

Author

Białoszewski, Miron

Publication

New York : New York Review Books, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

Levine, Madeline G.

Description

xix, 257 pages : illustrations, maps; 21 cm.

Summary

On August 1, 1944, Miron Białoszewski 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. Białoszewski’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. Madeline G. Levine has extensively revised her 1977 translation, and passages that were unpublishable in Communist Poland have been restored.

Series Statement

New York review books classics

Uniform Title

Pamiętnik z Powstania Warszawskiego. English

Alternative Title

Pamiętnik z Powstania Warszawskiego.

Subject

• Białoszewski, Miron
• Uprising (Warsaw, Poland : 1944)
• 1900 - 1999
• Authors, Polish > 20th century > Biography
• Authors, Polish
• Warsaw (Poland) > History > Uprising, 1944 > Personal narratives
• Poland > Warsaw

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History
• Personal narratives
• History.
• Personal narratives.
• Herinneringen (vorm)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Translator's Introduction -- A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising -- Notes -- Maps

ISBN

• 9781590176658 (alk. paper)
• 1590176650 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2013019758

OCLC

• 1017967849
• SCSB-11350967

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library