Biblioteki Polonii Amerykańskiej
Biblioteka Instytutu Józefa Piłsudskiego w Ameryce
Library of the Józef Piłsudski Institute of America		 Biblioteka imienia Alfreda Jurzykowskiego Polskiego Instytutu Naukowego w Ameryce
The Alfred Jurzykowski Memorial Library of the Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America		 Biblioteka Marjanczyków Polskiej Fundacji Kulturalnej
The Marjanczyk Library of the Polish Cultural Foundation
Biblioteka Fundacji Kościuszkowskiej
Library of the Kosciuszko Foundation

Story of a secret state : my report to the world / Jan Karski ; foreword by Madeleine Albright.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, c2013.Description: xxxi, 414 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781589019836 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.53/438092 23
LOC classification:
  • D802.P6 K3 2013
Contents:
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.
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Books Books The Marjanczyk Library of the Polish Cultural Foundation D802.P6K315 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan ML14128166

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.

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