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Katyn : a crime without punishment

Author: Anna M Cienciala; N S Lebedeva; Wojciech Materski
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2007.
Series: Annals of communism.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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In the spring of 1940, the Soviet Union carried out the mass executions of 14,500 Polish prisoners of war - army officers, police, gendarmes, and civilians - taken by the Red Army when it invaded eastern Poland in September 1939. This work details the Soviet killings, the elaborate cover-up of the crime, and the subsequent revelations.
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Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Anna M Cienciala; N S Lebedeva; Wojciech Materski
ISBN: 9780300108514 0300108516
OCLC Number: 71541606
Language Note: Translated from Polish and Russian; documents selected from 5 previously published volumes of Katyn documents (2 in Polish and 3 in Russian).
Notes: Translated from Polish and Russian; documents selected from 5 previously published volumes of Katyn documents (2 in Polish and 3 in Russian).
Description: xxviii, 561 p., [22] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: Prisoners of an undeclared war, 23 August 1939-5 March 1940 --
Extermination, March-June 1940 --
Katyn and its echoes, 1940 to the present.
Series Title: Annals of communism.
Responsibility: edited by Anna M. Cienciala, Natalia S. Lebedeva, Wojciech Materski ; documents translated by Marian Schwartz with Anna M. Cienciala and Maia A. Kipp.
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