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Warsaw boy, a memoir of a wartime childhood, Andrew Borowiec ; edited by Colin Smith

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Warsaw boy, a memoir of a wartime childhood, Andrew Borowiec ; edited by Colin Smith

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (page [363])

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autobiography

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Warsaw boy

Responsibility statement

Andrew Borowiec ; edited by Colin Smith

Sub title

a memoir of a wartime childhood

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

Target audience

adult

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