the cosmopolitan review

the cosmopolitan review received the following words of welcome from Dr. Thaddeus Gromada, President and Executive Director of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America:

Please accept my congratulations and best wishes on the appearance of  "the cosmopolitan review ".  It is indeed an impressive and ambitious project which I hope will endure and be a great success.  The Polish Institute will be glad to promote your publication and hopefully you will do the same for our academic quarterly journal "The Polish Review".  We applaud this initiative and urge you consider collaboration with PIASA.  You and your young colleagues will determine the future of Polish studies and culture in North America, so we invite you to become involved in our activities, in particular the 67th Annual Meeting (a multi-disciplinary conference on Polish studies) scheduled for June 13-14, 2009 at Hyatt Regency Jersey City/on the Hudson. Perhaps you will want to become PIASA members.

History is always important. To understand the present we must know the past.

The Warsaw Uprising of August 1944 was the greatest and bloodiest military operation undertaken by any resistance movement in the Second World War.
For two months the Nazis were held in check by an underground army of irregular volunteers; the vast majority of them barely adult. Himmler called it the hardest battle he ever fought. It has also been described as the single largest atrocity of the War. The Poles were left to face two enemies in a battle which cost 200,000 lives and left 80% of their capital destroyed.