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Story of a secret state,

Author: Jan Karski
Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1944.
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"This is the first account--by an eyewitness and participant--of Europe's toughest underground state. The Republic carried on under the noses of the Gestapo as a democratic organization, ready for the liberation."--Jacket.
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Karski, Jan, 1914-2000.
Story of a secret state.
Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1944
(OCoLC)580313531
Online version:
Karski, Jan, 1914-2000.
Story of a secret state.
Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1944
(OCoLC)607931120
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jan Karski
OCLC Number: 3489326
Description: vi, 391 p. 20 cm.
Contents: Defeat --
Prisoner in Russia --
Exchange and escape --
Devastated Poland --
The beginning --
Transformation --
Initiation --
Borecki --
Contact between cells --
Mission to France --
The underground state --
Caught by the Gestapo --
Torture --
The SS hospital --
Rescue --
The 'Gardener' --
Propaganda from the country --
Execution of a traitor --
The four branches of the underground --
The Laskowa apartment --
Assignment in Lublin --
Retribution --
The secret press --
My conspiratorial apparatus --
The liaison women --
Marriage per procuram --
School underground --
Parliament in Poland --
The ghetto --
'To die in agony' --
Unter den Linden revisited --
Journey through France and Spain --
My report to the world.
Responsibility: by Jan Karski.

Abstract:

"This is the first account--by an eyewitness and participant--of Europe's toughest underground state. The Republic carried on under the noses of the Gestapo as a democratic organization, ready for the liberation."--Jacket.

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