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This book tells about major
events during the Warsaw Uprising and shows its international context. The
author, prof. Janusz Kazimierz Zawodny, a historian, was born in Warsaw in 1921.
He was a soldier of World War II. He participated in the September 1939 campaign,
was a member of the Home Army, under a cryptonym Miś. He also was a first
lieutenant of the 2nd corps of the Polish Armed Forces, under general Władysław
Anders. During the Warsaw Uprising he was a commander of a troop in the HA
battalion Łukasiński in the Old Town. Then, in the City Center he was a
vice-commander of the company Koszta. He got wounded twice during the fight.
He was decorated with The Cross for the Brave and the Virtuti Militari Order of
the 5th class. He took his doctors degree at the Stanford University. He worked
as a lecturer at the Princeton University and at the ST Anthonys College of the
Oxford University. He was a head of the International Relations Department at
the Claremont Graduate University and the Pomona College. He is the author of
the publication Death in the Forest. The Story of Katyn Forest Massacre (1962,
polish edition 1989), which was the fundamental publication on the Katyń
genocide. Apart from this he is the author of a monograph of the Warsaw Uprising
Nothing but Honour. The Story of Warsaw Uprising, 1944 (1978, polish edition -
1994). He is an editor of publications in a field of international relations. In
2003 he was honoured by the President of the Institute of National Remembrance
with the title of The Curator of the National Remembrance.
10 August 2006
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