Story of a Secret State

WITH DUST JACKET - 1st Edition (Houghton Mifflin (1944) - VERY GOOD in a Good, Mylar protected dust jacket. DJ has chips and a few small repaired tears. Binding is tight and square. vi, 391 pages ; 20 cm. . . . . . A gripping memoir, recounting the author's experiences with the Polish Underground during World War II. It offers an account of the Nazi occupation of Poland and the Polish resistance. The story describes the role Karski played in providing an eyewitness report to the Allies of the Holocaust to the Allies. Karski describes his visit to Warsaw Ghetto and to a Nazi death camp, where he witnessed the horrific conditions and systematic slaughter of Jews. The memoir concludes with his journey to the West, where he meet with high-ranking officials, including Anthony Eden and Franklin D. Roosevelt, to report on the situation in occupied Poland and the plight of European Jews. . . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1.) Defeat -- 2.) Prisoner in Russia -- 3.) Exchange and escape -- 4.) Devastated Poland -- 5.) The beginning -- 6.) Transformation -- 7.) Initiation -- 8.) Borecki -- 9.) Contact between cells -- 10.) Mission to France -- 11.) The underground state -- 12.) Caught by the Gestapo -- 13.) Torture -- 14.) The SS hospital -- 15.) Rescue -- 16.) The *Gardener* -- 17.) Propaganda from the country -- 18.) Execution of a traitor -- 19.) The four branches of the underground -- 20.) The Laskowa apartment -- 21.) Assignment in Lublin -- 22.) Retribution -- 23.) The secret press -- 24.) My conspiratorial apparatus -- 25.) The liaison women -- 26.) Marriage per procuram -- 27.) School underground -- 28.) Parliament in Poland -- 29.) The ghetto -- 30.) *To die in agony* -- 31.) Unter den Linden revisited -- 32.) Journey through France and Spain -- 33.) My report to the world.

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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin company

Year: 1944

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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