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In the hands of Davies the Warsaw Rising has become his personal "plaything", the outpouring of his uncommonly overactive imagination, his huge arrogance and of his vast fantasy. In fact his knowledge about the Warsaw Rising is actually
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Ciechanowski has accused the author of so littering the book with factual and interpretative errors, "the number of all manner of errors in Davies' work is such, as to render his account of the Rising not wholly credible".
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One controversy surrounding the book is that Davies purposely anglicised most of the Polish proper names, including placenames and
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However, the Polish historian Jan Ciechanowski has taken grave exception to the work in more general terms:
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Rising '44. The Battle for Warsaw

Norman Davies
Warsaw Uprising
Macmillan
Warsaw Uprising
Norman Davies
pseudonyms
conspirators
Polish names
"Zmarnowana szansa (Uwagi i refleksje nad polskim wydaniem książki Normana Daviesa "Powstanie Warszawskie""
ISBN
0-333-90568-7
Rising '44: the battle for Warsaw
ISBN
0-670-03284-0
"'Warsaw Will Be Liquidated'"
The New York Times
"Read All About It"
Warsaw Voice
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t
e
Norman Davies
White Eagle, Red Star
God's Playground
Heart of Europe. A Short History of Poland
Europe: A History
The Isles: A History
Microcosm: Portrait of a Central European City

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