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100 1 $aLanger, Rulka.
245 14 $aThe mermaid and the Messerschmitt :$bwar through a woman's eyes, 1939-1940 /$cby Rulka Langer.
250 $aSecond edition.
264 1 $aLos Angeles, California :$bAquila Polonica,$c2009.
300 $axxiv, 467 pages :$billustrations, maps, portraits ;$c24 cm
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500 $a"First edition published 1942"--Title page verso.
505 0 $aAugust 1939: the last peacetime summer -- My race with Hitler -- August 27: back to Warsaw -- August 29: Warsaw prepares -- August 31: on the edge -- September 1: WAR! -- September 2: our first refugees -- September 5: the back evacuates -- September 6: mortal fear -- at Aunt Flika's -- Me, a German spy? -- Vadik -- September 15: home again -- The siege -- Waiting for horse meat -- Playing, eating, sleeping -- Grim but determined, Warsaw carries on -- The Malachowskis -- We take in the Grudas -- September 23: my birthday -- September 24: the Church of the Saviour burns -- September 25: Black Monday -- September 26: Warsaw surrenders -- Bitter days -- The Nazi occupation begins -- In need of candles -- Major von Kraven -- Priests and teachers arrested -- In terror's grip -- Christmas 1939 -- New regulations, a new business and -- -- -- The decision to leave Warsaw -- Free!
520 $aMost wartime accounts are written by soldiers and statesmen. [This] is a rare eyewitness account of the early chaotic days of World War II--the Nazi invasion of Poland, the Siege of Warsaw and the first few months of the Nazi occupation--written by a young working mother. -- jacket.
600 10 $aLanger, Rulka.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$vPersonal narratives, Polish.
651 0 $aPoland$xHistory$yOccupation, 1939-1945.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$zPoland$zWarsaw.
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