Jadwiga Biskupska is Assistant Professor of History at Sam Houston State University in Hunstville, Texas. She is co-director of Second World War Research Group, North America (SWWRGNA) and a former fellow of the Mandel Center at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

'In this chilling portrait of the Nazi occupation of Warsaw, Biskupska uncovers how the Polish intelligentsia struggled to preserve the nation through their networks in prisons and concentration camps, clandestine schools, churches, dissident movements, and armed opposition. With compassion and clarity, she reveals the complex moral choices Poles faced as Nazi efforts to subjugate Poles evolved into a campaign of annihilation.' Emily Greble, Vanderbilt University

• Introduction; 1. Warsaw besieged: September 1939; 2. The killing years; 3. Pawiak prison; 4. The Warsaw ghetto: A people set apart; 5. Information wars; 6. School of hard knocks: Illegal education; 7. Matters of faith: Catholic intelligentsia and the church; 8. Spoiling for a fight: Armed opposition; 9. Home army on the offensive: Violence in 1943–1944; Conclusion.

Jadwiga Biskupska is Assistant Professor of History at Sam Houston State University in Hunstville, Texas. She is co-director of Second World War Research Group, North America (SWWRGNA) and a former fellow of the Mandel Center at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

'In this chilling portrait of the Nazi occupation of Warsaw, Biskupska uncovers how the Polish intelligentsia struggled to preserve the nation through their networks in prisons and concentration camps, clandestine schools, churches, dissident movements, and armed opposition. With compassion and clarity, she reveals the complex moral choices Poles faced as Nazi efforts to subjugate Poles evolved into a campaign of annihilation.' Emily Greble, Vanderbilt University

• Introduction; 1. Warsaw besieged: September 1939; 2. The killing years; 3. Pawiak prison; 4. The Warsaw ghetto: A people set apart; 5. Information wars; 6. School of hard knocks: Illegal education; 7. Matters of faith: Catholic intelligentsia and the church; 8. Spoiling for a fight: Armed opposition; 9. Home army on the offensive: Violence in 1943–1944; Conclusion.

Jadwiga Biskupska is Assistant Professor of History at Sam Houston State University in Hunstville, Texas. She is co-director of Second World War Research Group, North America (SWWRGNA) and a former fellow of the Mandel Center at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

'In this chilling portrait of the Nazi occupation of Warsaw, Biskupska uncovers how the Polish intelligentsia struggled to preserve the nation through their networks in prisons and concentration camps, clandestine schools, churches, dissident movements, and armed opposition. With compassion and clarity, she reveals the complex moral choices Poles faced as Nazi efforts to subjugate Poles evolved into a campaign of annihilation.' Emily Greble, Vanderbilt University

• Introduction; 1. Warsaw besieged: September 1939; 2. The killing years; 3. Pawiak prison; 4. The Warsaw ghetto: A people set apart; 5. Information wars; 6. School of hard knocks: Illegal education; 7. Matters of faith: Catholic intelligentsia and the church; 8. Spoiling for a fight: Armed opposition; 9. Home army on the offensive: Violence in 1943–1944; Conclusion.