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Poland suffered terribly under the Nazis. By the end of the war six million had been killed: some were innocent civilians - half of them were Jews - but the rest died as a result of a ferocious guerrilla war the Poles had waged. On 1 August 1944 Andrew Borowiec, a fifteen-year-old volunteer in the Resistance, lobbed a grenade through the shattered window of a Warsaw apartment block onto some German soldiers running below. 'I felt I had come of age. I was a soldier and I'd just tried to kill some of our enemies'. The Warsaw Uprising lasted for 63 days: Himmler described it as 'the worst street…
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4 editions- Paperback · English · 2014Viking · 384 pages · 9780241004517
- Other · English · 2015Penguin Books, Limited · 400 pages · 9780241964033
- Other · English · 2014Penguin Books, Limited · 9780670922420
- Other · English · 2014Penguin Books, Limited · 361 pages · 9780241964040
World War, 1939-1945HistoryPolish Personal narrativesChildhood and youthGerman Prisoners and prisonsChildrenWarsaw (poland), history, uprising, 1944World war, 1939-1945, children