Story of a Secret State
1944 nonfiction book / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Story of a Secret State (later republished under longer, titles, Courier from Poland: The Story of a Secret State and Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World) is a 1944 book by Polish resistance Home Army courier Jan Karski. First published in the United States in 1944, it narrates Karski's experiences with the Polish Resistance (the Polish Secret State), and it is also one of the first book accounts of the German occupation of Poland, including the Holocaust in Poland.
Author | Jan Karski |
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Translator | Krystyna Sokołowska |
Country | United States |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin |
Publication date | 1944 |
Media type | |
Pages | 391 |
OCLC | 3489326 |
The book became a besteller in 1944. It helped to inform the American and Western public about the scope of active resistance in Poland, and it also has been described as one of the first accounts of the suffering of Poles and Polish Jews under the Nazi occupation, made available to the Western public.