Warsaw was in flames. The partisanforces of General Bor which nearly four weeks ago had risen at the approach of the Red armies, fought fires and Germans with equal gallantry. From housetops they dropped Molotov cocktails on Germantanks. Their women operated 100 field kitchens and first-aid posts.Unable to reach Warsaw's cemeteries, they buried their dead in parks and public squares. Their food and water were running short.
Nevertheless they held their strongholds in the central district. They even attacked German positions, destroyed half of a battalion, captured a platoon. From somewhere, it seemed, they had got a mysterious transfusion...