{"product_id":"building-the-barricade-by-anna-wirszczyska-9781945680687","title":"Building the Barricade","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuilding the Barricade\u003c\/i\u003e, harrowing and demanding, here takes its place in English among the twentieth century's master works of war-witness.\" - Jane Hirshfield\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuilding the Barricade\u003c\/i\u003e is poetry of witness, and a lyric account of the sixty-three day Warsaw uprising.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCaught between German occupation and the advancing Soviets, the Polish Resistance Home Army barricaded central Warsaw in hopes of liberating the city and gaining Polish sovereignty. \u003ci\u003eBuilding the Barricade\u003c\/i\u003e is Anna wirszczyska's first-person account of the atrocities that destroyed over 60% of the Polish capital and left over 100,000 civilians and 16,000 Polish resistance fighters dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ewirszczyska had joined the resistance as a military nurse and later wrote: \"Day and night German bombers raged over the capital, burying the living beneath the rubble.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47595883987180,"sku":"9781945680687","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/a04a669d0f59f233867ddeb07ff4026a.jpg?v=1777933209","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/building-the-barricade-by-anna-wirszczyska-9781945680687","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}