Werstein, Irving

Covers the period from Stephen Austin's colonization of Mexican Texas in 1821 to the Treaty of Guadulupe Hidalgo in 1848.

Describes the events that led to the German invasion of Poland and the three-week siege of the city of Warsaw; examines the daily life of ghetto-imprisoned Jews, the work of social welfare groups and underground activists, cooperative smuggling by city and ghetto citizens, and the overwhelming disease and starvation of the ghetto; and details the foredoomed street uprising by a population that chose to "die with honor.".