Story of a Secret State
Jan Karski
Hardcover
(Houghton Mifflin, March 15, 1944)
The problem of Poland's secret state is, in acute form, the problem of every agency in Europe which has had courage to resist. This is the first account - by an eyewitness and participant - of Europe's toughest underground state. The Republic carried on under the noses of the Gestapo as a democratic organization, ready for the liberation. Jan Karski's personal story is also the story of his people, and through his eyes we see the everyday life of a whole nation under the unique authority of a secret state, a state through which Democracy was reborn.