Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw (174 page)

‘When the cow bellows, don’t stand in the doorway!’

Greetings

from the Communist Army: ‘The Giant and the expectorated dwarf of reaction’

from the Parasol Battalion, Stalag VIIA, Murnau (Bavaria), Easter 1945

Western Airlift

A Halifax on the tarmac at Brindisi

A Liberator over the Adriatic

USAAF Flying Fortress at Poltava, Ukraine, ‘Frantic mission’

A successful drop in the Old Town

International Politics

15 August 1944, Premier ‘Mick’ (left) returns from Moscow – empty-handed

Roosevelt and Churchill: sixty days to save Warsaw

J. M. Keynes (centre) at Bretton Woods, August 1944: no Poles present

Western leaders at Quebec, September 1944:
not
discussing Warsaw

Devastation

Vola in the wake of Dirlewanger

Grave of a Gestpo agent