Story of a secret state
Subtitle: my report to the world
By: Jan Karski ; foreword by Madeleine Albright
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9781589019836
Subjects: Polish Personal narratives; World War, 1939-1945; History
Notes: Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1944.

Maps on lining papers.

"Follows the text of the original 1944 US edition ... supplemented with translations of additional material provided by the author in 1999 for the Polish edition"--p. xi.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-400) and index.
Table of contents: title: Biographical essay of Jan Karski / by Timothy Snyder; title: Defeat; title: Prisoner in Russia; title: Exchange and escape; title: Devastated Poland; title: The beginning; title: Transformation; title: Initiation; title: Borecki; title: Contact between cells; title: Mission to France; title: The underground state; title: Caught by the Gestapo; title: Torture; title: The SS hospital; title: Rescue; title: The "gardener"; title: Propaganda from the country; title: Execution of a traitor; title: The four branches of the underground; title: The Laskowa apartment; title: Assignment in Lublin; title: Retribution; title: The secret press; title: My "conspiratorial apparatus"; title: The liaison women; title: Marriage per procuram; title: School; title: underground; title: Parliament in Poland; title: The ghetto; title: "To die in agony; title: "; title: Unter den Linden revisited; title: Journey through France and Spain; title: My report to the world.