Warsaw has two enduring points of definition: the Wisla River, running south to north across the Mazovian plains, and the Moscow-Berlin road, stretching across this terrain - and through the city - east to west. Such a location, and four hundred years of capital status, have ensured a history writ large with occupations and uprisings, intrigues and heroism. Warsaw's sufferings, its near-total obliteration in World War II and subsequent resurrection from the ashes, has lodged the cit... [More]