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An edition of Story of a secret state (1943)

Story of a secret state

my report to the world

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Jan Karski’s Story of a Secret State stands as one of the most poignant and inspiring memoirs of World War II and the Holocaust. With elements of a spy thriller, documenting his experiences in the Polish Underground, and as one of the first accounts of the systematic slaughter of the Jews by the German Nazis, this volume is a remarkable testimony of one man’s courage and a nation’s struggle for resistance against overwhelming oppression.

Karski was a brilliant young diplomat when war broke out in 1939 with Hitler’s invasion of Poland. Taken prisoner by the Soviet Red Army, which had simultaneously invaded from the East, Karski narrowly escaped the subsequent Katyn Forest Massacre. He became a member of the Polish Underground, the most significant resistance movement in occupied Europe, acting as a liaison and courier between the Underground and the Polish government-in-exile. He was twice smuggled into the Warsaw Ghetto, and entered the Nazi’s Izbica transit camp disguised as a guard, witnessing first-hand the horrors of the Holocaust.

Karski’s courage and testimony, conveyed in a breathtaking manner in Story of a Secret State, offer the narrative of one of the world’s greatest eyewitnesses and an inspiration for all of humanity, emboldening each of us to rise to the challenge of standing up against evil and for human rights. This definitive edition—which includes a foreword by Madeleine Albright, a biographical essay by Yale historian Timothy Snyder, an afterword by Zbigniew Brzezinski, previously unpublished photos, notes, further reading, and a glossary—is an apt legacy for this hero of conscience during the most fraught and fragile moment in modern history.

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Pages
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Table of Contents

Biographical essay of Jan Karski / by Timothy Snyder
Defeat
Prisoner in Russia
Exchange and escape
Devastated Poland
The beginning
Transformation
Initiation
Borecki
Contact between cells
Mission to France
The underground state
Caught by the Gestapo
Torture
The SS hospital
Rescue
The "gardener"
Propaganda from the country
Execution of a traitor
The four branches of the underground
The Laskowa apartment
Assignment in Lublin
Retribution
The secret press
My "conspiratorial apparatus"
The liaison women
Marriage per procuram
School
underground
Parliament in Poland
The ghetto
"To die in agony
"
Unter den Linden revisited
Journey through France and Spain
My report to the world.

Edition Notes

Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1944.

Maps on lining papers.

"Follows the text of the original 1944 US edition ... supplemented with translations of additional material provided by the author in 1999 for the Polish edition"--p. xi.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-400) and index.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
940.53/438092
Library of Congress
D802.P6 K3 2013, D802.P6K3 2013

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxxi, 414 p., [13] p. of plates
Number of pages
414

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27143876M
Internet Archive
storyofsecretsta0000kars_h1h6
ISBN 10
1589019830
ISBN 13
9781589019836
LCCN
2012037549
OCLC/WorldCat
813220862

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