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Recommendation of the Month
The Great Powers and Poland, 1919-1945: From Versailles to Yalta by Jan Karski
Jan Karski (1914 - 2000), was a hero of the Polish Home Army. In 1942 and 1943 he reported to the Polish government in exile in London and the Western Allies, including Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Franklin D. Roosevelt, on the situation in German-occupied Poland, especially the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto and the extermination camps. He had firsthand knowledge about that because he was smuggled into the Warsaw Ghetto and also spent a day in a death camp. In 1944 he published the book "Story of a Secret State", which detailed the Polish resistance fight, recounted his exploits, and described the realities of the Holocaust. It became a best-seller book in the United States.
After the war Karski was unable to return to communist-ruled Poland and made his home in the United States. For 40 years he taught at Georgetown University in the areas of East European affairs, comparative government and international affairs, rising to become one of the most celebrated and notable members of its faculty. In 1954, he became a citizen of the United States. In 1974, he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to inspect Polish, British, and French archives. He spent more than a decade on the historical work "The Great Powers and Poland: 1919-1945", published in 1985 by University Press of America. In this book Karski demonstated very wise, calm, rational thinking about Polish policy and Poland's international position. He documented Poland's inability to play an independent and effective role in the international arena. It is an opposite view to the "we won't surrender even a shirt button" attitude. The attitude of flexing muscles that, in reality, you do not have. Karski wrote very clearly it was a road to nowhere.
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