World History August 1, 1944: A Failed Uprising Obliterates ‘The Paris of the East’ by Editor July 31, 2024 August 1, 1944, saw one of the largest urban uprisings of World War II. Since the beginning of the war and the joint Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, the Polish government had existed in exile in London. By the summer of 1944, with… Read More