Karski : how one man tried to stop the Holocaust / E. Thomas Wood ; Stanisław M. Jankowski.
An instinctive survivor, a soldier driven by a single-minded focus on his mission, an extraordinary man in an extraordinary time, Jan Karski became a legend
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| Main Authors: | Wood, E. Thomas |
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| Other Authors: | Jankowski, Stanisław M. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | New York u.a. : Wiley, 1994. |
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| Summary: | An instinctive survivor, a soldier driven by a single-minded focus on his mission, an extraordinary man in an extraordinary time, Jan Karski became a legend A young Polish diplomat turned cavalry officer at the outbreak of World War II, Karski joined the Polish underground movement in 1939 after ingeniously escaping from a Soviet detention camp. Most of the Polish officers held with him were later executed. Karski became a courier for the underground crossing enemy lines to serve as liaison between occupied Poland and the free world. Captured by the Gestapo in 1940 he was savagely tortured Afraid that the Germans would extract secrets from him he slashed his wrists. But after the suicide attempt failed, he escaped from a hospital with the help of an underground commando team. His work had just begun |
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| Physical Description: | XV, 316, [8] S. : Ill |
| ISBN: | 0471018562 |
