Story of a secret state : my report to the world /
Jan Karski ; foreword by Madeleine Albright.
- Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, c2013.
- xxxi, 414 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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.
9781589019836 (hbk. : alk. paper)
2012037549
Karski, Jan, 1914-2000.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Polish. World War, 1939-1945--Poland.