A life with Karol : my forty-year friendship with the man who became pope / Stanislaw Dziwisz in conversation with Gian Franco Svidercoschi ; translated from the Italian by Adrian J. Walker.

Part One: The Polish years -- The first meeting -- New men -- Turning point: Vatican II -- The Millennium crisis -- Wyszynski and Wojtyla -- The Cross of Nowa Huta -- "How could I fail to speak out?" -- Dissent Explodes -- Rebel youth -- "A Slav will be Pope" -- Part Two: The Papal years -- "Open the doors to Christ" -- A journey to anticlerical Mexico -- A typical day in the life of a Pope -- A sign of change -- Peter the Traveler -- Rome's own bishop -- Earthquake in the Empire -- A revolution of the people -- Two pistol shots -- But who armed the killer? -- A whole nation behind bars -- Solidarity lives! -- A new evangelization -- Youth, women, and the Ecclesial Movements -- "God's sister" Teresa -- And the wall came tumbling down -- No to Communism, not yes to Capitalism -- The global south -- A new adversary -- The spirit of Assisi -- The new martyrs -- It took six hands -- John Paul II's Jewish roots -- Thou shalt not kill in the name of God -- "Let me go home to the Lord".