Capsule Review January 1947 Issue Silent Is the Vistula by Irena OrskaReviewed by Robert Gale WoolbertAbout the Author: My FA Anthologies Read more by Robert Gale Woolbert In This Review Silent Is the Vistula By Irena Orska Longmans, 1946 275 pp. $3.00 Purchase Facebook Twitter Email My FA Saved Articles Print A lieutenant in the Polish Home Army relates the tragic story of the Warsaw rising of August 1944 and of her own subsequent imprisonment in Germany.