Jane Rogoyska

Surviving Katyn

Stalin's Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth

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The Katyn Massacre of 22,000 Polish prisoners of war is a crime to which there are no witnesses. Committed in utmost secrecy in April-May 1940 by the NKVD on the direct orders of Joseph Stalin, for nearly fifty years the Soviet regime succeeded in maintaining the fiction that Katyn was a Nazi crime, their story unchallenged by Western governments fearful of upsetting a powerful wartime ally and Cold War adversary. Surviving Katyn explores the decades-long search for answers, focusing on the experience of those individuals with the most at stake - the few survivors of the massacre and the Polish wartime forensic investigators - whose quest for… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-78607-893-3
EAN: 9781786078933
Produktnummer: 35133379
Verlag: Simon + Schuster Inc.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Seitenangabe: 400 S.
Plattform: EPUB

Über den Autor

Historian and biographer Jane Rogoyska is the acclaimed author of Gerda Taro: Inventing Robert Capa. She has a particular interest in the turbulent period from the 1930s to the Cold War in Europe. Her research into the Katyn Massacre led to her first novel, Kozlowski (long-listed for the Desmond Elliot Prize) and Still Here: A Polish Odyssey which she wrote and presented for BBC Radio 4.