STORY OF A SECRET STATE: MY REPORT TO THE WORLD

Karski was his nom de guerre: he had been born Jan Kozielewski the youngest of eight children in Lodz Polands secondlargest city on April 24 1914. Karski was a liaison officer of the Polish underground who infiltrated both the Warsaw Ghetto and a German concentration camp and then carried the first eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust to a mostly disbelieving Anthony Eden and Franklin Roosevelt.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 It is 1939. Jan Karski a brilliant young Polish student enjoys a life of parties and pleasure. Then war breaks out and his familiar world is destroyed. Now he must live under a new identity in the resistance. And in a secret mission that could change the course of the war he must risk his own life to try and save those of millions. Insistently asks the question: What would you do? Would you fight or acquiesce or collaborate? ... Karski was deeply patriotic and ludicrously brave ... an astonishing testament of survival Ben Macintyre Karskis adventures are worthy of the wildest spy thriller Daily Telegraph This eyewitness testimony is imbued with a passion that subsequent memoirs can rarely match Financial Times Deeply moving Daily Mail Reads like the screenplay to an incredibly exciting war movie but it is all true Andrew Roberts