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Chapter 1: Poland Abandoned
In his first chapter, Gross lays out the horrors Poland suffered during the war: The initial division of the country between Stalin and Hitler, the subsequent Nazi conquest, the horror of the massacre of the Polish army officers at the Katyn massacre by the Soviets, the Warsaw uprising of 1944 and the Soviet decision to postpone entering Warsaw until the German army had defeated the home army, the destruction of Warsaw , recdeuce, "to a pile of rubble," and the abandonment of Poland by Britain and America at the Yalta Conference.