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Books and films about the 1944 Warsaw Uprising available at the Seattle Public Library,  the University of Washington Libraries and the King County  Library System.

BOOKS IN ENGLISH:

Airlift to Warsaw : the rising of 1944 by Orpen, Neil D., 1913-University of Oklahoma Press, c1984.

Call #: 940.5421 Or7A

Format: Book

Location: Central Library  (Non-Fiction)

 

Rising '44 : the battle for Warsaw by Davies, Norman, 1939-Viking, 2004.

Call #: 940.5318 D2883R 2004

Format: Book

Location: Central Library , Ballard Branch , High Point Branch

 

Seventy days

by Zagórski, Wacław. Muller, 1957.

Call #: 940.953 Z13S

Format: Book

Location: Central Library  (Ask at Reference Desk (CS9))

 

Silent is the Vistula: the story of the Warsaw uprising, by Orska, Irena.Longmans, 1946.

Call #: 943.8 Or8S

Format: Book

Location: Central Library  (Non-Fiction)

 

BOOKS IN POLISH:

 

Popiół i diament by Andrzejewski, Jerzy. Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1976.

Call #: POLISH 891.853 An29P

Format: Book

Location: Central Library  (Ask at Reference Desk (CS1))

 

Przemarsz przez piekło by Podlewski, Stanisław. Wydawn. ALFA, 1994.

Call #: POLISH 940.53438 PODLEWS 1994

Format: Book

Location:Central Library   (World Languages)

 

FILMS

 

Ashes and diamonds, Home Vision, [199-?]

Call #: POLISH VHS ASHES A

Format: Video (VHS)

Language: In Polish, with English subtitles

Location: Broadview Branch , Green Lake Branch Magnolia Branch, North East Branch, Queen Anne Branch, Rainier Beach Branch, Wallingford Branch

 

Popiół i diament/Ashes and diamonds, Polart Distribution (UAS) ; Distributed by Facets Video, [2003]

Call #: POLISH DVD POPIOI

Format DVD

Language: In Polish, with English subtitles

Location: Central Library , Broadview Branch , Rainier Beach Branch, Southwest Branch

  

Kanał

Kanal, Polart Distribution (USA) : Distributed by Facets Video, 2003

Call #: POLISH DVD KANAL

Format: DVD

Language: In Polish, with English subtitles

Location: Central Library , Douglass-Truth Branch,

North East Branch

 

Kanal, Public Media Home Vision, [199-?]

Call #: POLISH VHS KANAL

Format: Video (VHS)

Language: In Polish, with English subtitles

Location: Ballard Branch, Delridge Branch, Green Lake Branch, Mountlake Branch, Queen Anne Branch, Rainier Beach Branch, Southwest Branch

 

Pokolenie/A generation, Home Vision, [199-?]

Call #: POLISH VHS POKOLEN

Format: Video (VHS)

Language: In Polish, with English subtitles

Location: Central Library , Broadview Branch , Green Lake Branch, North East Branch, Queen Anne Branch, Rainier Beach Branch, Wallingford Branch

 

BOOKS IN ENGLISH:

A memoir of the Warsaw uprising, by Biaoszewski, Miron. (sic! Bialoszewski, Miron)  Evanston, Ill, Northwestern University Press 1991,

Call #: 940.53438

Location: Bellevue Regional Library, Shoreline Library

 

Nothing but honour : the story of the Warsaw Uprising, 1944 / by Zawodny, J. K. (Janusz Kazimierz) Stanford Calif, Hoover Institution Press, 1978

Call# 943.84

Format: Book

Location: Bellevue Regional Library

 

FILMS

 

A generation, (Pokolenie),

Call #: VT891.85 GEN POLISH

Language: In Polish, with English subtitles

Location: Bellevue Regional Library, Des Moines Library, Redmond Regional Library

 

 

Kanal, Public Media Home Vision, [199-?]

Call #: VT891.85 KAN POLISH

Format: Video (VHS)

Language: In Polish, with English subtitles

Location: Bellevue Regional Library, Redmond Regional Library

BOOKS IN ENGLISH:

 

Airlift to Warsaw : the rising of 1944 / by Neil Orpen.Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c1984 Call #: D765.2.W3 O77 1984

Location: Suzzallo/Allen Stacks

 

Ashes and diamonds. Kanal. A generation. Three films by Andrzej Wajda : Modern film scripts, New York, Simon and Schuster [1973]

Call # PN1997 .W28 

Location: Suzzallo/Allen Stacks

 

Battle for Warsaw, 1939-1944 / Michael Alfred Peszke. Boulder : East European Monographs ; New York : Distributed by Columbia University Press, 1995.

Call #D765.2.W3 P477 1995

Location: Suzzallo/Allen Stacks



The civilian population and the Warsaw uprising of 1944 / Joanna K.M. Hanson. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1982,

Location:Suzzallo/Allen Stacks

Call #:  D765.2.W3 H36 1982


Ludzie walczacej Warszawy. English, Food for the children / by Anna Boguslawska ; translated [from the Polish] by Ewa Barker., London : Cooper, 1975.

Call #: D765.2.W3 B5513 1975

Location: Suzzallo/Allen Stacks


Nothing but honour : the story of the Warsaw Uprising, 1944 / J. K. Zawodny., Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, 1978,

Call #:D765.2.W3 Z38

Location: Odegaard Stacks , Suzzallo/Allen Stacks


Silent is the Vistula; the story of the Warsaw uprising, by Irene Orska; translated from the Polish by Marta Erdman.EDITION [1st ed.] New York, Longmans, Green, 1946,

Call #: D765.2.W3 B92

Location: Suzzallo/Allen Stacks


The Warsaw Rising of 1944  by Jan M. Ciechanowski. London, New York Cambridge University Press, 1974

Cal #: D765.2.W3 C48 1974

Location:Suzzallo/Allen Stacks


The Warsaw Uprising, 1 August - 2 October 1944 [by] George Bruce.London, Hart-Davis, 1972

Call #: D765.2.W3 B78

Location:  Suzzallo/Allen Stacks


A memoir of the Warsaw uprising / Miron Bialoszewski ; edited and translated by Madeline Levine. Ann Arbor, Mich. : Ardis, c1977

Call #D765.2.W3 B513

Location: Suzzallo/Allen Stacks

 

There is an extensive collection of books about the 1944 Warsaw Uprising in Polish

 

More: BOOKS IN POLISH



FILMS:

 

Popiol i diament Ashes and diamonds [videorecording] / ZAF "Kadr" Los Angeles, Calif. : Embassy Home Entertainment, [c1986]

Call #:  Videorecord BOT-14

Language: In Polish, with English subtitles

Location: Bothell/CCC Media

 

Ashes and diamonds [videorecording]/ Zespól Filmowy KADR ; director, Andrzej Wajda [S.l.] : Public Media Home Vision, [1995?]

Call #: Videorecord HOV 093 

Language: In Polish, with English subtitles

Location: Odegaard Media

 

Eroica [videorecording] : symfonia bohaterska w dwoch czesciach / Zespol Autorow Filmowych KADR scenariusz, Jerzy Stefan Stawinski ; rezyseria, Andrzej Munk

Call #: Videorecord POL 017

Language: In Polish, with English subtitles

Location: Odegaard Media

 

Eroica

 

Kanal [videorecording] = Canal / Zespol Autorow Filmowych Kadr ; rezyseria, Andrzej Wajda [Chicago, Ill.] : Home Vision Cinema, [199-?]

Call #: Videorecord HOV 159

Language: In Polish, with English subtitles

Location: Odegaard Media

 

Kanal


Burning questions [videorecording]
/ Matchlight Productions presents ; a film by Mishael Porembski ; produced and directed by Mishael Porembski ; written by Mishael Porembski, Ted Schillinger

Call #: Videorecord MATCH 001

Location:  Odegaard Media
 

 

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