Story of a Secret State : My Report to the World
Jan. Karski
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Washington : : Georgetown University Press, , 2013.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (462 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; Note on the Text; Publisher's Note; Preface; Foreword; Biographical Essay of Jan Karski; 1 Defeat; 2 Prisoner in Russia; 3 Exchange and Escape; 4 Devastated Poland; 5 The Beginning; 6 Transformation; 7 Initiation; 8 Borecki; 9 Contact between Cells; 10 Mission to France; 11 The Underground State; 12 Caught by the Gestapo; 13 Torture; 14 The SS Hospital; 15 Rescue; 16 The ''Gardener''; 17 Propaganda from the Country; 18 Execution of a Traitor; 19 The Four Branches of the Underground; 20 The Laskowa Apartment; 21 Assignment in Lublin; 22 Retribution; 23 The Secret Press. - 24 My ''Conspiratorial Apparatus''25 The Liaison Women; 26 Marriage per Procuram; 27 School-Underground; 28 Parliament in Poland; 29 The Ghetto; 30 ''To Die in Agony . . .''; 31 Unter den Linden Revisited; 32 Journey through France and Spain; 33 My Report to the World; Notes; Glossary; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; K; L; M; N; P; R; S; T; V; W; Z; Further Reading; Afterword; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Illustrations. - 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 simultaneo
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| ISBN | 978-1-58901-983-6(ib.)
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