Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw (170 page)

On patrol in the countryside

The ‘Bashta’ Battalion on exercises

Presenting the standard (27
th Volhynian Infantry Division)

Maj. ‘Gloomy’, one of SOE’s ‘Dark and Silent’

The Allied Coalition

London, 5 August 1940: signing of the Anglo-Polish Treaty

Teheran, 1943: the Big Three: Churchill and Roosevelt give Stalin secret assurances

London, 1943–44: the Exiled Polish Government

Washington, June 1944: FDR to Premier ‘Mick’, ‘Your country will emerge undiminished’

Anti-German Risings, August 1944

Paris

Slovakia

The Enemy in View

Home Army marksman

Locating German positions

Insurgent Leaders

Gen. ‘Boor’, Commander of the AK

Gen. ‘Monter’, Commander of the Rising