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Warsaw boy : a memoir of a wartime childhood / Andrew Borowiec ; edited by Colin Smith.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: UK : Penguin Books, 2015.Description: xix, 361 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780241964033 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.53438092 23
LOC classification:
  • D802
Summary: In the autumn of 1944, Andrew Borowiec, wearing two left shoes and bleeding from numerous shrapnel wounds, limped into a German prisoner-of-war camp. Andrew was one of the youngest boy soldiers who fought in the Warsaw Rising, witnessing the worst street fighting since Stalingrad. Wounded in the leg, he emerged from the sewers and gave himself up, taking a chance as a prisoner of war. In the prison camp he secretly kept a diary on toilet paper, and this became the basis of his extraordinary account of a young boy facing the horror of war.
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General The Harden Library, King's Hospital Main 940.53 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available R16575L0499

Originally published: London: Viking, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references.

In the autumn of 1944, Andrew Borowiec, wearing two left shoes and bleeding from numerous shrapnel wounds, limped into a German prisoner-of-war camp. Andrew was one of the youngest boy soldiers who fought in the Warsaw Rising, witnessing the worst street fighting since Stalingrad. Wounded in the leg, he emerged from the sewers and gave himself up, taking a chance as a prisoner of war. In the prison camp he secretly kept a diary on toilet paper, and this became the basis of his extraordinary account of a young boy facing the horror of war.

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