The Warsaw Rising, 1944
On August 1, twenty-five years ago, Russian tanks had pushed the Germans across the river Vistula, which skirts Warsaw to the East. The Polish Underground Army decided that this was their last chance to recapture their own capital. But in the two months and three days that followed, a city the size of Glasgow was razed to the ground and some 250,000 people died.
JOHN TUSA tells this moving and dramatic story with the help of fighters who survived and the words of Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt.
Produced by Patricia Brent
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