List of Plates

Map of the fighting districts of Warsaw.

Author’s squad on a training exercise in the country prior to the Uprising.

Soldiers waiting to go into action, on the left is ‘Baszkir’ from author’s squad.

Light armoured German vehicles on a street in Warsaw.

Ruins of Warsaw.

A young soldier with home-made grenades.

Street urchin defenders.

Girl runner with soldiers (one wounded).

Insurgents – young and younger.

Patrol going into action.

Soldier in a lookout post.

Author’s sketch of a soldier at a sniper’s post.

Ruins of the Old Town district.

Soldiers arriving from the Old Town to the City Centre.

Emerging from a sewer.

Page of author’s diary with drawing of the ‘Pamfir’ restaurant converted to a hospital where ‘Zorian’ and others had died.

Ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto (scene where ‘Zorian’ was wounded).

Ruins of Warsaw.

Warsaw burning.

Soldiers marching out of Warsaw after capitulation.

In liberated Warsaw.

The author after liberation in 1945.

The author in 1999 looking at a commemorative stone engraved with names of fallen colleagues from his squad.