Fifty years after the beginning of the Warsaw Uprising, a Commemorative Ceremony took place in Warsaw at which representative speakers from all the involved nations addressed the audience. In this volume, a discourse analysis of each of these addresses is presented.

1. Preface; 2. 1. Facing the past: The commemoration of the Warsaw Uprising on the occasion of its Fiftieth anniversary (by Ensink, Titus); 3. 2. A discourse analytic approach to the commemorative speeches about the Warsaw Uprising (by Ensink, Titus); 4. 3. The Messianic Warsaw: Mythological framings of political discourse in the address by Lech Walesa (by Galasinski, Dariusz); 5. 4. The search for acceptable perspectives: German President Roman Herzog commemorates the Warsaw Uprising (by Ensink, Titus); 6. 5. A politician's sociology: US Vice President Gore's categorisation of the participants in the Warsaw Uprising (by Mazeland, Harrie); 7. 6. Framing the past: An analysis of John Major's address (by Schaffner, Christina); 8. 7. From commemoration to self-celebration: Explorations in the interplay of discourse frames and political perspectives in the address by Rene Monory (by Torck, Daniele); 9. 8. How the Russians handled a problem: The Warsaw Uprising in Sergey Filatov's address (by Steinke, Klaus); 10. 9. Merging frames: A frame analysis of the South African, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand addresses (by Koole, A.J.); 11. 10. Pope John Paul II as a Polish Patriot: The Pope's letter in commemoration of the Warsaw Uprising (by Steinke, Klaus); 12. 11. The politics of public memory: The commemoration of the Second World War in a historical and comparative perspective (by Vree, Frank van); 13. Index