Jan Karski

Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World

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Karski's Story of a Secret State stands as one of the most poignant and inspiring memoirs of World War II and the Holocaust. With elements of a spy thriller, documenting his experiences in the Polish Underground, and as one of the first eyewitness accounts of the slaughter of the Jews by the German Nazis.

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Albright, Madeleine (Solist) / Snyder, Timothy (Solist)

ISBN: 978-1-58901-983-6
EAN: 9781589019836
Produktnummer: 14052856
Verlag: Georgetown Univ Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 464 S.
Masse: H23.6 cm x B16.2 cm x D3.8 cm 891 g
Auflage: Revised
Gewicht: 891
Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.

Über den Autor

Jan Karski was born in Lodz, Poland, in 1914. He received a degree in Law and Diplomatic Science in 1935 and served as a liaison officer of the Polish Underground during World War II. He carried the first eyewitness report of the Holocaust to a mostly unbelieving West, meeting with President Roosevelt in 1943 to plead for Allied intervention. Story of a Secret State was originally published in 1944, becoming a bestseller and Book of the Month Club selection. After the war, Karski earned his Ph.D. at Georgetown University, where he served as a distinguished professor in the School of Foreign Service for forty years. He died in Washington, DC, in 2000. Karski has been recognized as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem. In 2012, he was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama.