Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World

<p><b>'Stands in the absolute first rank of books about the resistance in World War II. If you wish to read about a man more courageous and honourable than Jan Karski, I would have no idea who to recommend' Alan Furst</b> <br><br> It is 1939. Jan Karski, a brilliant young Polish student, enjoys a life of parties and pleasure. Then war breaks out and his familiar world is destroyed. Now he must live under a new identity, in the resistance. And, in a secret mission that could change the course of the war, he must risk his own life to try and save those of millions. <br><br> <b>'Insistently asks the question: What would you do? Would you fight, or acquiesce, or collaborate? ... Karski was deeply patriotic and ludicrously brave ... an astonishing testament of survival' Ben Macintyre</b><br><br> <b>'Karski's adventures are worthy of the wildest spy thriller' <i>Daily Telegraph</i></b><br><br> <b>'This eye-witness testimony is imbued with a passion that subsequent memoirs can rarely match' <i>Financial Times</i></b><br><br> <b>'Deeply moving' <i>Daily Mail</i></b><br><br> <b>'Reads like the screenplay to an incredibly exciting war movie - but it is all true' Andrew Roberts</b></p> <p><b>'Stands in the absolute first rank of books about the resistance in World War II. If you wish to read about a man more courageous and honourable than Jan Karski, I would have no idea who to recommend' Alan Furst</b> <br><br> It is 1939. Jan Karski, a brilliant young Polish student, enjoys a life of parties and pleasure. Then war breaks out and his familiar world is destroyed. Now he must live under a new identity, in the resistance. And, in a secret mission that could change the course of the war, he must risk his own life to try and save those of millions. <br><br> <b>'Insistently asks the question: What would you do? Would you fight, or acquiesce, or collaborate? ... Karski was deeply patriotic and ludicrously brave ... an astonishing testament of survival' Ben Macintyre</b><br><br> <b>'Karski's adventures are worthy of the wildest spy thriller' <i>Daily Telegraph</i></b><br><br> <b>'This eye-witness testimony is imbued with a passion that subsequent memoirs can rarely match' <i>Financial Times</i></b><br><br> <b>'Deeply moving' <i>Daily Mail</i></b><br><br> <b>'Reads like the screenplay to an incredibly exciting war movie - but it is all true' Andrew Roberts</b></p>