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<p> Stands in the absolute first rank of books about the resistance in World War II. If you wish to read about a man more courageous and honourable than Jan Karski, I would have no idea who to recommend. -- Alan Furst, author of The Polish Officer , reviewing a previous edition or volume

<p> Stands in the absolute first rank of books about the resistance in World War II. If you wish to read about a man more courageous and honourable than Jan Karski, I would have no idea who to recommend. -- Alan Furst, author of The Polish Officer, reviewing a previous edition or volume

Briskly paced, this is a gripping and immediate account of Nazi brutality from a brave leader of the resistance. (Starred Review) -- Publishers Weekly, 01/07/2013 A disturbing, unique, invaluable record of Poland's suffering and heroism during World War II. (Starred Review) -- Kirkus Reviews, 01/15/2013

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Jan Karski was born in od , 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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