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

By: Karski, Jan, 1914-2000.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, c2013Description: xxxi, 414 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781589019836 (hbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Karski, Jan, 1914-2000 | World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Polish | World War, 1939-1945 -- Poland | Poland -- History -- Occupation, 1939-1945DDC classification: 940.53/438092
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.
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D802.P6 I736 1998 Powołanie i przeznaczenie : D802.P6K24 1958 Kamienie na szaniec / D802.P6K3 1944 Story of a secret state / D802.P6K315 2013 Story of a secret state : D802.P6 K365 1989 Kamienie na szaniec / D802.P6 K365 1989 Kamienie na szaniec / D802.P6 K377 Story of a Secret State :

Originally published: 1944.

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

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.

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