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Karski: How One Man Tried to Stop the Holocaust: Modern Jewish History

Autor E. Thomas Wood, Stanislaw M. Jankowski Cuvânt înainte de Elie Wiesel Introducere de Michael Berenbaum
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 iul 2014
Revised and updated, with previously unpublished material, and a new Introduction and Afterword

A young Polish diplomat turned cavalry officer, Jan Karski joined the Polish Underground movement in 1939. He became a courier for the Underground, crossing enemy lines to serve as a liaison between occupied Poland and the free world.
            In 1942, Jewish leaders asked him to carry a desperate message to Allied leaders: the news of Hitler's effort to exterminate the Jews of Europe. To be able to deliver an authentic report, Karski twice toured the Warsaw Ghetto in disguise and later volunteered to be smuggled into a camp that was part of the Nazi murder machine.
            Carrying searing tales of inhumanity, Karski set out to alert the world to the emerging Holocaust, meeting with top Allied officials and later President Roosevelt, to deliver his descriptions of genocide.
            Part spy thriller and part compelling story of moral courage against all odds, Karski is the first definitive account of perhaps the most significant warning of the impending Holocaust to reach the free world.

Co-published with Gihon River Press
 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780896728820
ISBN-10: 089672882X
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 150 x 226 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Texas Tech University Press
Colecția Texas Tech University Press
Seria Modern Jewish History


Recenzii

Karski is the remarkable story of a modest man who has become a “professional hero.”. . . Economically written and well-researched. --The Times Literary Supplement

A book that is more than just a spy thriller: Karski's report raises anew the question of why the Allies didn't make ending the mass-murder of the Jews a war aim. --Der Spiegel

Notă biografică

E. Thomas Wood’s investigative, business, and historical journalism has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and numerous other newspapers and magazines. He is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and holds an M.Phil. degree in European Studies from the University of Cambridge.
 
Historian Stanislaw M. Jankowski is a leading authority on Poland’s underground movement during the Second World War. He is a graduate of Jagiellonian University in Krakow and the author of more than 20 books. For his historical work related to the Katyn massacre, he has been awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.