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Surviving Katyń : Stalin's Polish massacre and the search for truth / Jane Rogoyska.

Summary:

"The Katyn Massacre of 22,000 Polish prisoners of war is a crime to which there are no witnesses. Committed in utmost secrecy in April-May 1940 by the NKVD on the direct orders of Joseph Stalin, for nearly fifty years the Soviet regime succeeded in maintaining the fiction that Katyn was a Nazi atrocity, their story unchallenged by Western governments fearful of upsetting a powerful wartime ally and Cold War adversary. Surviving Katyn explores the decades-long search for answers, focusing on the experience of those individuals with the most at stake -- the few survivors of the massacre and the Polish wartime forensic investigators -- whose quest for the truth in the face of an inscrutable, unknowable, and utterly ruthless enemy came at great personal cost"--Amazon.

Record details

ISBN: 1786078929
ISBN: 9781786078926
Physical Description: xxvi, 370 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: London, England : Oneworld Publications, 2021.
Copyright: ©2021

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I STAROBELSK, KOZELSK, OSTASHKOV 1939 -- 40 -- 1. Monasteries -- 2. Names -- 3. Questions -- 4. Lectures -- 5. Letters -- 6. Parrot Hour -- pt. II GRIAZOVETS 1940 -- 41 -- 7. Pavlishchev Bor -- 8. Griazovets -- 9. `Guests' -- 10. `Villa Of Bliss' -- 11. Factions -- 12. War! -- pt. III CZAPSKI'S QUEST 1941 -- 42 -- 13. The New Polish Army -- 14. Czapski's Quest -- 15. Evacuation -- 16. The Witness -- 17. Escape -- pt. IV THE FOREST 1943 -- 44 -- 18. Bodies -- 19. Politics -- 20. In The Forest -- 21. Burdenko -- pt. V COLD WAR 1945- -- 22. Pursuit -- 23. The Survivors -- 24. Cold War -- 25. Revelations -- 26. Death -- 27. Smolensk.