A review by stannesonthehill
Story of a Secret State by Jan Karski

5.0

I picked up this book while doing a study of resistance to Hitler. This narrative of the Polish underground is phenomenal. I often had to remind myself that it is nonfiction. I was amazed at the amount of detail he was able to print in the midst of the war. Karski's account of the work he and others did to thwart the Nazi occupiers reads like a espionage novel complete with fake passports, double agents, bumbling villains and prison escapes. His writings about the Warsaw ghetto and his visit to a concentration camp were painfully disturbing and I can only imagine how shocking it would be to those in the West when he first published it. This is an amazing book by an amazing man!