In October 1940 Nazis forced all the Jews in the Polish city of Warsaw to live in the cramped squalor of a small ghetto. Despite the starvation and disease that claimed 50;000 lives per year; the Jews were not dying swiftly enough to suit Heinrich Himmler; who ordered in 1942 that the Warsaw Ghetto be dismantled and the 450;000 inhabitants be deported to the gas chambers at Treblinka. On April 19; 1943; the first day of Passover; two thousand German troops; singing confidently; marched into the ghetto to round up the remnant of remaining Jews. Suddenly; a fifteen-year-old girl tossed a grenade in their midst. Within minutes the German army had been routed. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising had begin.This is the first full-scale; step-by-step account of the climatic twenty-eight-day struggle of the poorly armed Jews against their Nazi exterminators. The Bravest Battle took more than two years to write and involved interviewing more than 500 people; including most of the surviving fighters. This moving history cannot be matched for its authenticity and drama. The Bravest Battle is a testament to the Warsaw Jews; who fought for survival with dignity and courage.
#1698451 in Books 2017-04-25Original language:English 8.63 x 1.62 x 5.75l; #File Name: 0300222696648 pages
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