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Kaia, Heroine of the 1944 Warsaw Rising

Kaia, Heroine of the 1944 Warsaw Rising

Kaia, Heroine of the 1944 Warsaw Rising

Aleksandra Ziólkowska-Boehm / Aleksandra Ziółkowska-Boehm

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Editorial:
Bloomsbury Publishing plc
Año de edición:
2014
Materia
Historia de otras regiones
ISBN:
9780739190531
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Kaia, Heroine of the 1944 Warsaw Rising tells the story of one woman, whose life encompasses a century of Polish history. From Siberia, to the German occupation of Poland, to the Warsaw Rising, to a Soviet prison, to the rebuilding of postwar Warsaw—Kaia’s memories are given life and context in this biography that sheds light not only on her life, but on twentieth-century Poland, as well.

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