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STORY OF A SECRET STATE-Jan Karski -Houghton Mifflin...
...crushed between the devastating German and Russian juggernauts in 1939, had yielded up their national ghost, few could have blamed them. In no other conquered country were the prospects of a successful resistance movement more dangerous and disheartening. But an underground was organized. And unlike most underground soldiers, Jan Karski has lived to tell the tale. His book is, in part, one of the most vivid adventure stories of the war. But more, it is a powerful document in the case for Polish independence...
Between Life & Death. In the middle of November 1939, Jan Karski, then a 25-year-old Polish lieutenant, made his way into Warsaw. A student before the war, cheerful, optimistic, he had escaped from a train bound for a German work camp. A weird, funereal light lay over the city and suburbs. The mind of Poland had been shaken by disaster, and in a twilight of reason, people moved half automatically, midway between life & death. They stalked along the roads sightlessly, as if hypnotized; they held themselves stiffly, as if all their will power was needed to keep them from...
...Karski stood by this grave in silence. Then, he went to his sister's house. Before entering, he automatically tried to straighten his tie. As he did so, he suddenly realized how he looked-a matted beard, ragged clothes that a peasant had given him, the accumulated dirt of battle, retreat, prison. He burst into hysterical laughter. He went into the house to find that while his sister knew him, he scarcely knew her. Her husband had been arrested, tortured, shot...
Violinist-Executioner. Karski went out in the rainy, cheerless afternoon to the apartment, six blocks away, of an old friend from his days at Lwow University. There Karski had belonged to an association that lectured to the peasants on literature, history, hygiene. The peasants were mildly interested in Karski's lectures. But they loved the intense, gifted, frail young high-school student who went with him and played the violin after his talk. This was Dziepatowski. He was now an executioner for the underground...