{"product_id":"karski-how-one-man-tried-to-stop-the-holocaust-newly-updated-9781682832714","title":"Karski: How One Man Tried to Stop the Holocaust, Newly Updated","description":"\u003cp\u003eA young Polish diplomat turned cavalry officer, Jan Karski joined the Polish Underground movement in 1939. He became a courier for the Underground, crossing enemy lines to serve as a liaison between occupied Poland and the free world. In 1942, Jewish leaders asked him to carry a desperate message to Allied leaders: the news of Hitler's effort to exterminate the Jews\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof Europe. To be able to deliver an authentic report, Karski twice toured the Warsaw Ghetto in disguise and later volunteered to be smuggled into a camp that was part of the Nazi murder machine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarrying searing tales of inhumanity, Karski set out to alert the world to the emerging Holocaust, meeting with top Allied officials and later President Roosevelt, to deliver his descriptions of genocide. Part spy thriller and part compelling story of moral courage against all odds, Karski is the first definitive account of perhaps the most significant warning of the impending Holocaust to reach the free world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis new edition also features a conversation with Academy Award Nominee David Strathairn, who played Jan Karski in the play \u003cem\u003eRemember This\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWood, E. Thomas:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eE. Thomas Wood\u003c\/b\u003e's investigative, business, and historical journalism has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, and numerous other newspapers and magazines. He is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and holds an M.Phil. degree in European Studies from the University of Cambridge.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJankowski, Stanislaw M.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Historian \u003cb\u003eStanislaw M. Jankowski\u003c\/b\u003e (d. 2022) was a leading authority on Poland's underground movement during the Second World War. He was a graduate of Jagiellonian University in Krakow and the author of more than 20 books. For his historical work related to the Katyn massacre, he was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.","brand":"Texas Tech University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51500737560850,"sku":"9781682832714","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_850e13a8-acc6-41d3-b088-b49da4f4be93.jpg?v=1753198446","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/karski-how-one-man-tried-to-stop-the-holocaust-newly-updated-9781682832714","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}