This book is more than just a document – it is a suggestive creation of an image of a ruined city that had a powerful impact on the collective memory and was cultivated by the propaganda of the Polish ...

The Nike monument is one of the most recognizable symbols of Warsaw, even though it went through a move from the representative Theatre Square to the East-West thoroughfare. The monument is 21 metres ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Warsaw city councilors have banned a 1945 monument of Polish-Soviet World War II brotherhood in arms from being returned to its place in a city square. The move, a reversal of ...

A photographic highlight selected by the picture desk. On 17 January 1945, Warsaw was liberated from the Germans by the Red Army and the 1st Polish Army. They found a completely devastated city. 2,000 ...

During the Warsaw Uprising in August 1944, more than 85% of Warsaw's historic centre was destroyed by Nazi troops. After the war, a five-year reconstruction campaign by its citizens resulted in ...

WARSAW, Poland — The plane slowly descends from white clouds and sweeps over a panorama of a city destroyed by the Nazis: the skeletons of bombed bridges jutting from a quiet river, the empty walls of ...

This amazing and moving study sheds new light on details of the Holocaust that have up until now not been examined. Under the German occupation, "ninety-eight percent of the Jewish population of ...

The tragic history of Warsaw during World War II and the history of the German panzers which helped invade have been brought to life in two new books. Barnstaple author Anthony Tucker-Jones has ...

The plane slowly descends from white clouds and sweeps over a panorama of a city destroyed by the Nazis: the skeletons of bombed bridges jutting from a quiet river, the empty walls of burned-out ...