{"product_id":"story-of-a-secret-state-my-report-to-the-world-9781589019836","title":"Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jan Karski\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Georgetown University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Georgetown University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Wars \u0026amp; Conflicts - World War II - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1939, Jan Karski, a brilliant young Polish student, enjoyed a life of parties and pleasure. But when war broke out his familiar world was destroyed. Karski became a liaison officer of the Polish underground and POW of the Red Army who eventually infiltrated both the Warsaw Ghetto and a German resettlement camp, carrying the first eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust to a mostly disbelieving West. He met with President Roosevelt in 1943 and pleaded for Allied intervention; Roosevelt then established the War Refugee Board, a federal agency that helped settle surviving Jews. Soon after this Karski wrote of his experiences in Story of a Secret State, which was published by Houghton Mifflin in 1944 and became a Book on the Month Club selection. Near the end of the war Karski, a devout Catholic, remained Washington and earned a PhD at Georgetown in the School of Foreign Service and later taught at Georgetown for forty years; he died in 2000. In 2012 Karski received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. According to Alan Furst, Story of a Secret State \"stands in the absolute first rank of books about the resistance in World War II.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Georgetown University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45411578970263,"sku":"9781589019836","price":2504.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781589019836.webp?v=1767444027","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/story-of-a-secret-state-my-report-to-the-world-9781589019836","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}