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Starting as soon as 1939, disparate Jewish underground motions coalesced surrounding the shared goal of liberating Poland from Nazi occupation. For another six years, individually and in concert, they waged a heroic war of resistance against Hitler's war machine that culminated in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. In Isaac's Army, Matthew Brzezinski delivers the first-ever extensive narrative account of this struggle, following a group of dedicated young Jews - some hardly out of these teens - whose specific functions of defiance helped rewrite the closing of World Warfare II. Based on first-person accounts from diaries, interviews, and making it through relatives, Isaac's Army chronicles the outstanding triumphs and damaging setbacks that befell the Jewish underground from its first functions of defiance in 1939 to the exodus to Palestine in 1946. This is the remarkable true story of the Jewish resistance from the perspective of those who led it: Isaac Zuckerman, the comfortable and charismatic twenty-four-year-old founder of the Jewish Fighting Business; Simha Ratheiser, Isaac's fifteen-year-old bodyguard, whose boyish good looks and seeming immunity to risk made him an ideal courier; and Zivia Lubetkin, the warrior queen of the underground who, after reading the first intimations of the Holocaust, announced: "We are going to defend ourselves." Joined up with by allies on the left and right, they survived Gestapo torture chambers, smuggled arms, ran covert printing presses, opened up illegal classes, robbed banks, executed collaborators, and fought in both largest rebellions of the war. Hunted by the Germans and bedeviled by the "Greasers" - roving rings of blackmailers who consistently turned in resistance fighters for earnings - the movement was chronically short on firepower but long on ingenuity. Its participants hatched plots in dank basements, never more than a door knock from brief summary execution, and slogged through fetid sewers to escape the burning Ghetto to the forests bordering the town. And after the preliminary uprising was ruthlessly deposit by the SS, they gambled everything on a bold plan for a citywide revolt - of both Jews and Gentiles - that can end only in success or total devastation. The money they lifted helped thousands hide when the Ghetto was liquidated. The documents they forged offered lifelines to families desperate to escape the horror of the Holocaust. So when the war was over, they helped found the condition of Israel. A tale of secret alliances, inside rivalries, and undying commitment to a cause, Isaac's Army is history at its most center -wrenching. Influenced by an memorable cast of heroes, it's a true-life tale with the pulse of any great novel, and a party of the indomitable heart of resistance.
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