Rising '44

Witness the heroic Warsaw Uprising through the lens of a masterful historian in Norman Davies' Rising '44.

1944. As World War II tears Europe apart, Warsaw finds itself caught between the advancing Soviet Red Army and Hitler's resolute Wehrmacht. The people of Nazi-occupied Warsaw believe that liberation is at hand when the Soviets reach the river Vistula. Little do they know, they are in the eye of a storm.

Instead of liberating the city, the Soviets halt, allowing the Wehrmacht to regroup and Hitler to order the razing of Warsaw. For 63 days, the Polish Resistance fights on valiantly in the cellars and sewers while defenceless citizens are slaughtered in their tens of thousands. One by one, the city's monuments crumble to rubble, as Soviet troops watch from the other side of the river.

In this poignant narrative, renowned British historian Norman Davies vividly recounts one of the defining moments of the 20th century - the tragic tale of Warsaw's 63 days of heroism and devastation during the ill-fated Rising of 1944.