{"product_id":"9781945680687","title":"Building the Barricade","description":"\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\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\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 Świrszczyńska’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\u003cp\u003eŚwirszczyńska 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","brand":"White Pine Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42451755991101,"sku":"9781945680687","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781945680687_p0.jpg?v=1771580942","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.mom\/products\/9781945680687","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}