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Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World de Jan Karski

Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World

Autor Jan Karski Madeleine Albright
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 ian 2014
With elements of a spy thriller, documenting his experiences in the Polish Underground, and as one of the first eyewitness accounts of the systematic slaughter of the Jews by the German Nazis, this volume presents a testimony of one man's courage, and a nation's struggle for resistance against overwhelming oppression.
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ISBN-13: 9781626160316
ISBN-10: 1626160317
Pagini: 414
Dimensiuni: 152 x 226 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.73 kg
Editura: Georgetown University Press

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Jan Karski'sStory of a Secret Statestands in the absolute first rank of books about the resistance in World War II. If you wish to read about a man more courageous and honorable than Jan Karski I would have no idea who to recommend. Yes, it's that good.
It deserves its status as a Penguin Classic, not only because it is a great historic document, but also because it's a cracking good read: Karski's adventures are worthy of the wildest spy thriller
His account of his missions is an electrifying tale of false identities, near captures, spies and secret film capsules ... in human terms, Karski's account is invaluable
Story of a Secret Stateis now viewed as a classic insider's account of the Resistance in occupied Europe...After all the harrowing descriptions of Holocaust horrors there have been over the years from survivors of Auschwitz, Belsen, and Ravensbruck, Karski's vivid account of what he saw back in 1942 is still deeply moving. We feel his shock and incredulity that this could really be happening in 20th century 'civilised' Europe.
The bravery of the man who risked all to tell the world about the Holocaust is truly staggering ... an extraordinary testament to Man's inhumanity to Man, and the even more remarkable courage required to resist it
Karski's exploration of the moral fog in which he and his colleagues operated ... made me recall thrillers likeMan HuntandHangmen Also Die... two episodes resemble scenes tantalisingly directed by Hitchcock ... Karski's account of the systematic brutality of the Nazi regime is literally chilling
Reads like the screenplay to an incredibly exciting war movie - but it is all true
Seared with an urgency that pitches the reader into the heart of the horror
His story deserves not just revival but reflection ... Karski's electrifying words still speak only too eloquently for themselves

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In 1939, Jan Karski, a brilliant young Polish student, enjoyed a life of parties and pleasure. But when war broke out his familiar world was destroyed. Karski became a liaison officer of the Polish underground and POW of the Red Army who eventually infiltrated both the Warsaw Ghetto and a German resettlement camp, carrying the first eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust to a mostly disbelieving West. He met with President Roosevelt in 1943 and pleaded for Allied intervention; Roosevelt then established the War Refugee Board, a federal agency that helped settle surviving Jews. Soon after this Karski wrote of his experiences in Story of a Secret State, which was published by Houghton Mifflin in 1944 and became a Book on the Month Club selection. Near the end of the war Karski, a devout Catholic, remained Washington and earned a PhD at Georgetown in the School of Foreign Service and later taught at Georgetown for forty years; he died in 2000. In 2012 Karski received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. According to Alan Furst, Story of a Secret State "stands in the absolute first rank of books about the resistance in World War II."