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Title: Karski : How One Man Tried to Stop the Holocaust by E. Thomas Wood, Stanisław M. Jankowski ISBN: 0-471-14573-4 Publisher: Wiley Pub. Date: 02 February, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: An amazing, inspiring life, and an exciting read as well
Comment: I first heard about Jan Karski when I read his obituary in the New York Times a few years back. After reading the obituary, I thought that this guy led an exciting and profound life, and that his life story would make a great book and/or movie (Steven Speilberg, are you listening?). That's why I'm glad I found this book.
Jan Karski was a young diplomat in Poland when the Germans invaded in 1939. Before the invasion, he seemed to be more interested in the political power struggles of the day rather than the moral and ethical quandaries of war. That soon changed after he was taken prisoner and sent to both Soviet and Nazi prison camps. He spent the war years secretly delivering messages around Europe for the Polish underground, and word of his exploits soon spread among the Allies. He was later sent to Britian and later, the United States, where he became a citizen and lived out the rest of his life.
His near-famous quest to relay the horrors of the Holocaust to the skeptical Allies is only one facet of this individual's life. The authors excelled at opening my eyes to the political infighting among various factions of the Polish resistance (politics doesn't die in wartime, it just goes underground, I learned), and they seemed to paint Karski as an individual who became more interested in working for human freedom and dignity than for carving a political legacy for himself in a postwar Poland.
Karski's days in Britain got a bit dry in the book; his wartime adventures in occupied Europe and his postwar days at Georgetown University (as the world began to recognize his contributions) held my attention the most.
As a bonus, a guide to the many characters Karski dealt with in his life is included in the appendix...a handly tool for keeping track of who's who in this book.
Rating: 4
Summary: An inspiring and exciting story
Comment: Jan Karski, who died in July 2000, was a larger than life hero from World War II, who tried to smuggle out information from Nazi occupied Poland to warn the rest of the world about the horrors happening to the Jewish population of his country. He was captured by the Nazis, tortured, escaped, eventually met with President Roosevelt, and truly lived an unbelievably brave and inspiring life. The story is better than any fictional thriller or Hollywood movie. You have to keep reminding yourself that what you are reading is true. It keeps your attention throughout the book, though the last couple of chapters are less exciting naturally than the rest, once the war is over. One has to wonder if there are people like Jan Karski living today...
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Title: Story of a Secret State by Jan Karski ISBN: 1931541396 Publisher: Simon Publications Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $35.95 |
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Title: Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw by Norman Davies ISBN: 0670032840 Publisher: Viking Books Pub. Date: 06 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
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Title: Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles Under German Occupation 1939-1944 by Richard C. Lukas, Norman Davies ISBN: 0781809010 Publisher: Hippocrene Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: A Question of Honor : The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of World War II by Lynne Olson, Stanley Cloud ISBN: 0375411976 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Poland 1939: The Birth of Blitzkrieg (Campaign 107) by Steve Zaloga, Howard Gerrard ISBN: 1841764086 Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK) Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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