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Story of a Secret State : My Report to the World
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Story of a Secret State : My Report to the World Hardcover - 2012

by Karski, Jan

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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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  • Title Story of a Secret State : My Report to the World
  • Author Karski, Jan
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 464
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Georgetown University Press, Washington, DC
  • Date 2012-03-15
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 7912899-6
  • ISBN 9781589019836 / 1589019830
  • Weight 1.92 lbs (0.87 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.28 x 6.39 x 1.41 in (23.57 x 16.23 x 3.58 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Military
    • Chronological Period: 1930's
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Cultural Region: Germany
    • Religious Orientation: Catholic
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
  • Library of Congress subjects World War, 1939-1945, Poland - History - Occupation, 1939-1945
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012037549
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.534

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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.

From the publisher

In 1939, Jan Karski, a brilliant young Polish student, enjoyed a life of parties and pleasure. But when war broke out his familiar world was destroyed. Karski became a liaison officer of the Polish underground and POW of the Red Army who eventually infiltrated both the Warsaw Ghetto and a German resettlement camp, carrying the first eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust to a mostly disbelieving West. He met with President Roosevelt in 1943 and pleaded for Allied intervention; Roosevelt then established the War Refugee Board, a federal agency that helped settle surviving Jews. Soon after this Karski wrote of his experiences in Story of a Secret State, which was published by Houghton Mifflin in 1944 and became a Book on the Month Club selection. Near the end of the war Karski, a devout Catholic, remained Washington and earned a PhD at Georgetown in the School of Foreign Service and later taught at Georgetown for forty years; he died in 2000. In 2012 Karski received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. According to Alan Furst, Story of a Secret State "stands in the absolute first rank of books about the resistance in World War II."

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  • Kirkus Reviews, 01/15/2013, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 01/07/2013, Page 51

About the author

Jan Karski was born in Ldź, 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 PhD 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.

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