| Description |
xxxi, 414 pages, 13 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1944. |
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"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. |
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Maps on endpapers. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-400) 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. |
| Subject |
Karski, Jan, 1914-2000.
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Poland -- History -- Occupation, 1939-1945.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Polish.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Poland.
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| ISBN |
9781589019836 hardback alkaline paper |
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1589019830 hardback alkaline paper |
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