{"product_id":"surviving-katyn-stalins-polish-massacre-and-the-search-for-truth-9780861543038","title":"Surviving Katyn: Stalin's Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth","description":"\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A gripping reconstruction... utterly compelling reading.' Adam Zamoyski\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This is a grim story, thoroughly researched and brilliantly told.' Geoffrey Alderman, \u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Katyn Massacre of 22,000 Polish prisoners of war is a crime to which there are no witnesses.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCommitted 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. \u003ci\u003eSurviving Katyn\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJane Rogoyska is the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eGerda Taro: Inventing Robert\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eCapa\u003c\/i\u003e. She has a particular interest in the turbulent period from the 1930s to the Cold War in Europe. Her research into the Katyn Massacre led to her first novel, \u003ci\u003eKozlowski\u003c\/i\u003e (long-listed for the Desmond Elliott Prize) and \u003ci\u003eStill Here: A Polish Odyssey \u003c\/i\u003ewhich she wrote and presented for BBC Radio 4.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"ONEWorld Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50452551368978,"sku":"9780861543038","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_826b00f3-606f-4cdd-9d75-46b67e869fa3.jpg?v=1729815032","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/surviving-katyn-stalins-polish-massacre-and-the-search-for-truth-9780861543038","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}