{"product_id":"building-the-barricade-paperback","title":"Building the Barricade - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnna Świrszczyńska\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003ePiotr Florczyk\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eEavan Boland\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\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\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\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.Świrszczyńska 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.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnna Świrszczyńska\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1909. She attended Warsaw University where she studied medieval and baroque Polish literature. She began publishing poems in the 1930s. During the Nazi occupation of Poland, Świrszczyńska joined the Polish Resistance and was a military nurse during the Warsaw Uprising. Anna Świrszczyńska died in Krakow of cancer in 1984.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePiotr Florczyk\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eEast \u0026amp; West\u003c\/i\u003e, a volume of poems, \u003ci\u003eBarefoot\u003c\/i\u003e, a chapbook of poems, and \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Sketchbook\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of brief essays and photographs. He has also translated several books of Polish poetry. He teaches global literary studies at the University of Washington, Seattle.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 26, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51765256356128,"sku":"9781945680687","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/49ef51db4dce532b7d398b938df6fb88.webp?v=1780265099","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/building-the-barricade-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}