{"product_id":"9781590176979","title":"A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising","description":"On August 1, 1944, Miron Białoszewski, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBiałoszewski’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, \u003ci\u003eA Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising\u003c\/i\u003e is  also a major work of literature. Białoszewski 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMadeline G. Levine has  extensively revised her 1977 translation, and passages that were  unpublishable in Communist Poland have been restored.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47164260548848,"sku":"9781590176979","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590176979_p0.jpg?v=1763804465","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590176979","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}