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Author:

Karski, Jan, 1914-2000.

Title:

Story of a secret state : my report to the world / Jan Karski ; foreword by Madeleine Albright.

Publisher:

Georgetown University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2013

Description:

xxxi, 414 p. ill.

Subject:

Karski, Jan,--1914-2000.
Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Polish.
World War, 1939-1945--Poland.

Notes:

Originally published: 1944. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Foreword / by Madeleine Albright -- 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.

ISBN:

1589019830 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9781589019836 (hbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2012037549

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

RZPE145 -- Carroll Public Library (Carroll)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

CEAX572 -- Kirkwood Community College Library (Cedar Rapids)

CDPF771 -- Clive Public Library (Clive)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)