A review by toawp
Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World by Jan Karski

5.0

As a lover of history and the humanity of past eras, I have read several Holocaust accounts. However, I had never heard the story of the Polish Underground. This book is the account of one man who survived the war as a key member of that organization. I was saddened, amazed and entranced while reading this account of his work within the Polish Underground. Written in the 1940s, Jan Karski tried to inform the world of the atrocities being committed by the Germans against the Polish people, particularly it's Jewish population. There are true tales here of incredible courage, as well as devastating loss woven into his account of how Poles resisted the Nazi occupation with every fiber of their being. A must-read for any student of WW II history.