Varsavia 1944. Storia della distruzione di una città

[Autom. eng. transl.] This book tells of an 'episode' of World War II usually neglected by history manuals and yet characterized by a rate of absurd drama that makes it unique in many ways. What comes of it is a real civil narrative. By interweaving political history with single individual stories and specific events, Paolo Colombo reconstructs in a touching and compelling way the two-century evolution of relations between Germany and Poland up to the chilling Nazi decision to literally raze the Polish capital to the ground before abandoning it to the advance of the Soviet Red Army, in 1944. The text returns the fluid and engaging tone of the public narrative that generated it so as to be easy and at the same time exciting to read and offers the synthesis of a story that acquires even greater value on the occasion of the "Day of Remembrance".