Participants and Witnesses of Warsaw Uprising. Interviews

In the foreword to his book, Janusz Zawodny says: (…) I personally interviewed people who had been responsible for taking the decision about Warsaw Uprising. Both from London and from Warsaw: Prime Minister Stanisław Mikołajczyk, general Tadeusz “Bór” – Komorowski, insurgents, Polish airmen under British command, diplomats from Washington, Moscow, Rome, and London. I had been collecting those interviews in six countries (the United States, Canada, Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy) since 1965 till 1972. In Polish People’s Republic it was not possible to objectively collect materials about Warsaw Uprising . I have been living abroad since 1944.
Interviews with the Poles were not easy. In controversial situations they had, as always, “passion for the truth, but different perception of evidence.”
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Although I could not agree with some opinions, I did not discuss nor question the content, for the aim of the interview was to collect statements of the participants. I did not want to interpret their words.
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The discourse of the interviews was diverse: ranging from emotional re-experiencing the events to diplomatic wording of the information. I noticed the following: the more information about the decision of starting the uprising one possessed, the less will they had to provide exhaustive interview (e.g. in the case of gen. Tadeusz Pełczyński).