{"product_id":"building-the-barricade","title":"Building the Barricade","description":"\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\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":54253623148888,"sku":"9781945680687","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781945680687_d2444f2b-500d-4540-9fb8-9e258ed14c7a.jpg?v=1765874714","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/building-the-barricade","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}