Reader’s corner

As I’ve been reading off-topic recently (Arsene Wenger’s autobiography and Tolkien’s The Fall of Gondolin), I decided to catch up a bit with the “compulsory reading” posts. Today a short review of “Secret state” by Jan Karski (Jan Kozielewski). My copy was published in 1999 by the “Twój Styl” publishing house and it is, hard to believe, the first edition of this book in Poland. The book was first published in the US, in 1944. Polish version is 344 pages long, of which approximately 30 pages contain photographs at the end of the book. In addition to the photos, in the Annex you will find an interview with Karski and several press articles written by the courier during the war. Book is divided into 33 chapters, and the action began in September 1939 and ended in the summer of 1943, when Karski went to the USA, where, inter alia, he was received by President Roosevelt. A year later, a book written at fast pace by Karski, “Story of a Secret State”, was published in the United States.

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