Story of a secret state : my report to the world /
Karski, Jan, 1914-2000.
Story of a secret state : my report to the world / Jan Karski ; foreword by Madeleine Albright. - Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, c2013. - xxxi, 414 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
"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. Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1944.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-400) and index.
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.
1589019830 (hbk. : alk. paper) 9781589019836 (hbk. : alk. paper)
2012037549
Karski, Jan, 1914-2000.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Polish.
World War, 1939-1945--Poland.
Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
Story of a secret state : my report to the world / Jan Karski ; foreword by Madeleine Albright. - Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, c2013. - xxxi, 414 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
"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. Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1944.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-400) and index.
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.
1589019830 (hbk. : alk. paper) 9781589019836 (hbk. : alk. paper)
2012037549
Karski, Jan, 1914-2000.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Polish.
World War, 1939-1945--Poland.
Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.