Los Angeles, California: Pinnacle Books, 1978. First Printing [Stated]. Mass market paperback. [20], 458, [2] pages. Illustrations. Cover has some wear and soiling. Includes Preface, Acknowledgments, Prologue, Epilogue, Notes, and Bibliography. The daily sufferings of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II have been the subject of a number of fictional and nonfictional works. But this is the first attempt at a full-scale account of the twenty-eight-day armed uprising that grew out of such conditions. This is the first full-scale, step-by-step account of the climactic twenty-eight-day struggle of the Warsaw Ghetto Jews against their Nazi exterminators. Seldom, if ever, in history has a single armed conflict produced greater heroism or more explosive political consequences. The Warsaw Ghetto uprising ended two thousand years of Jewish submission to discrimination, oppression, and finally, genocide. It marked the beginning of an iron militancy rooted in the will to survive, a militancy that was given form and direction by the creation of the state of Israel. For twenty-eight days (according to official German calculation, but actually longer) some fifteen hundred fighters, armed with little more than pistols and homemade bombs and supported by about sixty thousand civilians passively resisting in hidden bunkers, fought off several thousand Nazi soldiers equipped with rifles, artillery, tanks, armored cars, flamethrowers, and aircraft. Whole nations fell under the German yoke in a far shorter period. Nothing has been fictionalized. All quotations and descriptions, as well as thoughts attributed to characters in this book, come from the writings of the persons involved. More