I-78. POLISH PEOPLE READ WITH GREAT INTEREST THE FIRST GERMAN COMMUNICATES. ON THE LEFT IS STILL VISIBLE THE POLISH MANIFEST FOT THE MOBILITATION

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By September 19 Warsaw had been under artillery bombardment for ten consecutive days. So many thousands of Poles had already been killed by air as well as by artillery bombardment that the public parks were having to be used for burials. Tenaciously, the Polish forces struggled to hold the city's perimeter. Several German tanks were immobilized when they penetrated too swiftly into the suburbs. German troops, advancing too far, were captured. But the bombardment was relentless.

From: Martin Gilbert, The Second World War, A Complete History, Herry Holt and Company, Inc., New York, 1989, p. 10.

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