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Good. Writing on one or more of the edges. There is handwriting, stickers or numbers inside the front cover Cover/Case has some rubbing and edgewear. Access codes, CD's, slipcovers and other accessories may not be included.
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Very Good with no dust jacket. 0471018562. Foreword by: Elie Wiesel. First edition, first printing. Near fine with minor bumping to corners in near fine, non price clipped jacket. Tight and clean, free of former owner writing or bookplates. This book is the first definitive account of Jan Karski's mission, which was perhaps the most significant warning of the impending holocaust to reach the free world. It is a compelling story of moral courage against all odds. (This book is in our possession. We ship most books six days a week and will confirm with tracking number for domestic orders or customs number for non domestic).; 8vo.
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Very good in Very good jacket. xv, [1], 316 pages. Illustrations. Map. Bibliography. Glossary of Names. Sources and Notes. Index. Foreword by Elie Weisel. The dust jacket is price-clipped. Lengthy note on fep and handwritten message on a note card (with envelop) laid in. There is a possibility that the inscription and note are from Stanislaw Jankowski but this connection is not definitively asserted. From the inscription on the fep, it appears the writer personally knew Karski. Derived from a Kirkus review: A lively account of Jan Karski's role in the WW II Polish underground. From the very first chapter (which opens in August 1939), journalist Wood and Polish journalist Jankowski build Karski into a hero by circumstance. The 25-year-old Karski, an aspiring diplomat and a lieutenant in the Polish Army, was traveling by train in his native land when the Blitzkrieg hit. Soviet forces captured and imprisoned him. From then on, the text recounts one exciting escapade after another during Karski's years of service as a secret agent for the Polish underground. As it recounts Karski's diplomatic struggles to aid the Polish underground and to inform VIPs about the plight of Polish Jewry, the book relies on his own account of his actions. The authors portray Karski in broad strokes as a man with unswerving goals, nerves of steel; a diehard diplomat in moral conflict with everyone but himself. It must be admitted, though, that their saga is a real page-turner, with drama woven into every scene and an abundance of enjoyable anecdotes; exciting all the same. Jan Karski (born Jan Kozielewski, 24 June 1914-13 July 2000) was a Polish soldier, resistance-fighter, and diplomat during World War II. He is known for having acted as a courier in 1940-1943 to the Polish government-in-exile and to Poland's Western Allies about the situation in German-occupied Poland. He reported about the state of Poland, its many competing resistance factions, and also about Germany's destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto and its operation of extermination camps on Polish soil that were murdering Jews, Poles, and others. Emigrating to the United States after the war, Karski completed a doctorate and taught for decades at Georgetown University in international relations and Polish history. He lived in Washington, D.C., until the end of his life. Karski did not speak publicly about his wartime missions until 1981 when he was invited as a speaker to a conference on the liberation of the camps. Karski was featured in Claude Lanzmann's nine-hour film Shoah (1985), about the Holocaust, based on oral interviews with Jewish and Polish survivors. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Karski was honored by the new Polish government, other European nations, and the US for his wartime role. Karski completed his diplomatic apprenticeship between 1935 and 1938 at various posts in Romania (twice), Germany, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, and joined the diplomatic service. After completing and gaining a First in Grand Diplomatic Practice, on 1 January 1939 he started work in the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In November 1939 Karski was among POWs on a train bound for a POW camp in the General Government zone, a part of Poland that had not been fully incorporated into The Third Reich. He escaped and made his way to Warsaw. There he joined the SZP (S u ba Zwyci stwu Polski)-the first resistance movement in occupied Europe, organized by General Micha Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski, the predecessor to ZWZ, later the Home Army (AK). About that time Karski (until then, Kozielewski) adopted the nom de guerre, Jan Karski, which he later made his legal name. In 1942, Karski was selected by Cyryl Ratajski, the Polish Government Delegate's Office at Home, to undertake a secret mission to see prime minister W adys aw Sikorski in London. Karski was to contact Sikorski and various other Polish politicians and brief them on Nazi atrocities in occupied Poland. In order to gather evidence, Karski met...
