TY - BOOK AU - Karski,Jan TI - Story of a secret state: my report to the world SN - 9781589019836 (hbk. : alk. paper) AV - D802.P6 K3 2013 U1 - 940.53/438092 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Washington, DC PB - Georgetown University Press KW - Karski, Jan, KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Personal narratives, Polish KW - Poland KW - History KW - Occupation, 1939-1945 N1 - 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 ER -