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Authors: Norman Davies

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Page

Capsule

364

FELDWEBEL

369

GRAVES

373

SAXONS

378

AIRDROP

382

SISTERS

386

ANGER

390

AMAZON

394

FOREST

399

SEWER II

 

 

403

CRUCIFIX

407

VANDALS

410

WITNESS

413

SWIMMER

419

LOGISTICS

424

CEASEFIRE

428

VERSES

 

 

473

IRKA II

476

EXODUS

481

ADMIRATION

486

POW

492

GHOST TOWN

495

SIBERIA

499

FIRESTORM

505

FUGITIVE

 

 

538

BRITAIN

541

USA

546

CANADA

551

AUSTRALIA

557

CAVIAHUE

561

MEXICO

564

IRKA III

569

IRKA IV

574

‘BOOR’

Notes

The following abbreviations are used for frequently recurring positions:

AKD:
Studium Polski Podziemnej,
Armia Krajowa w Dokumentach, 1939–45
, Tom IV (London, 1977).
DWS:
Władysław Bartoszewski,
Dni Walcza¸cej Stolicy: Kronika Powstania Warszawskiego
(Warsaw, 1984).
GARF:
State Archive of the Russian Federation (Moscow).
HIA:
Hoover Institution Archive (Stanford., Ca).
PRO:
Public Record Office (London).
PSZ:
Polish Institute, Polskie Siły Zbrojne (London).
RGVA:
Russian State Military Archives. Andrzej K. Kunert (ed.),
Rzeczpospolita Walcz
ca: Powstanie Warszawskie, 1944: Kalendarium
(Warsaw, 1994)
Sbkw:
A. K. Kunert (ed.),
Słownik biograficzny konspiracji warszawskiej, 1939–44
, 3 vols (Warsaw, 1987–91).
SPP:
Studium Polski Podziemnej (London).
TNA:
The National Archives, formed in April 2003 from the Public Record Office and the Historical Manuscripts Commission.
ZH:
Zeszyty Historyczne
(Paris).

Foreword

pp. ix–xvi


1
.
As an introductory English bibliography, the Oxford Libraries Information System (OLIS) under ‘Warsaw Rising’ may be accessed at <
http://library.ox.ac.uk
>.

2
.
The latest generation of source books on the Rising, almost all in Polish, include Andrzej K. Kunert (ed.),
Rzeczpospolita Walcz
ca: Powstanie Warszawskie, 1944: Kalendarium
(Warsaw, 1994) (RW): idem,
Słownik biograficzny konspiracji Warszawskiej, 1939–44
(Warsaw, 1987–91), 3 vols: and
Encyklopedia Powstania Warszawskiego
, vol. 3 (Warsaw, 1997). W. Bartoszewski,
Dni Walcz
cej Stolicy: Kronika Powstania Warszawskiego
(Warsaw, 1984) is a mine of information. A conference collection, Z. Ma
kowski and J.
wi
ch (eds),
Powstanie Warszawskie w historiografii i literaturze, 1944–94
(Lublin, 1996), contains specially valuable surveys of recent historiography and literature.

3
.
Norman Davies,
Heart of Europe: a short history of Poland
(Oxford, 1984), revised edition, 2002.

4
.
Norman Davies,
Europe: a history
(Oxford, 1996, New York, 1997),

5
.
Quoted in Krzysztof Gluchowski, ‘Dickens and Poland’ in
The Dickensian
, no. 456, vol. 98, part 1, Spring, 2002, p. 48.

6
.
See ‘How God invented Polish’ at <
www.cartoonstock.com ref.sbo779
>.

350/XXX/999 TO8 DE1

pp. 1–13


1
.
Barnes Lodge, Ruckler’s Lane, between King’s Langley and Hemel Hempstead (Herts). Acknowledgement is due for many intimate details in this section to Mr Zbigniew S. Siemaszko, who served at Barnes Lodge in 1944.

2
.
See Gerhard Weinberg,
A World at Arms: a global history of World War Two
(Cambridge, 1994), pp. 667ff: ‘The Assault on Germany from all sides’.

3
.
Zbigniew S. Siemaszko, ‘Ł
czno
Radiowa Sztabu Naczelnego Wodza w przededniu Powstania Warszawskiego’,
ZH
(Paris), August, 1964, pp. 64–116.

4
.
Jan Karski,
The Great Powers and Poland, 1919–45
(Lanham, MD, 1985), Part two, 1939–45, pp. 385–624.

5
.
Zbigniew S. Siemaszko, correspondence with the author, 28 August 2002, 28 December 2002.

6
.
Józef Garli
ski,
Intercept: the Enigma war
(London, 1981): see also F. W. Winterbotham,
The Ultra Secret
(London, 1974): J. Cairncross,
The Enigma Spy
(London, 1997).

7
.
I. C. B. Dear (ed.),
Oxford Companion to the Second World War
(Oxford, 1995), p. 849.

8
.
Zbigniew S. Siemaszko, letter 28 August 2002.

9
.
Max Hastings,
Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy
(London, 1984).

10
.
Siemaszko, op. cit., p. 78.

11
.
See D. Stafford,
Britain and European Resistance, 1940–45
(London, 1980).

12
.
C. MacDonald,
The Killing of SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich
(London, 1989).

13
.
See Denis Mack Smith,
Italy and its Monarchy
(New Haven, 1989), pp. 329ff.

14
.
Siemaszko, op. cit., p. 113.

15
.
Ibid.

16
.
Reconstructed Morse text,
JU
WALCZYMY. FLAGA BIAłO-CZERWONA POWIEWA NAD WARSZAW
(after Siemaszko, op. cit., p. 153).

17
.
Ibid.

18
.
Ibid., p. 89. PSZ III, p. 665.

19
.
S. Kopa
ski,
W spomnienia wojenne, 1939–46
(London, 1961), p. 323.

20
.
A. Pomian, ‘Military Messages’,
The Warsaw Rising: a Selection of Documents
(London, 1945), p. 1.

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