Story of a Secret State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Story of a Secret State write by Jan Karski. This book was released on 2013-02-22. Story of a Secret State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Jan Karski’s Story of a Secret State stands as one of the most poignant and inspiring memoirs of World War II and the Holocaust. With elements of a spy thriller, documenting his experiences in the Polish Underground, and as one of the first accounts of the systematic slaughter of the Jews by the German Nazis, this volume is a remarkable testimony of one man’s courage and a nation’s struggle for resistance against overwhelming oppression. Karski was a brilliant young diplomat when war broke out in 1939 with Hitler’s invasion of Poland. Taken prisoner by the Soviet Red Army, which had simultaneously invaded from the East, Karski narrowly escaped the subsequent Katyn Forest Massacre. He became a member of the Polish Underground, the most significant resistance movement in occupied Europe, acting as a liaison and courier between the Underground and the Polish government-in-exile. He was twice smuggled into the Warsaw Ghetto, and entered the Nazi’s Izbica transit camp disguised as a guard, witnessing first-hand the horrors of the Holocaust. Karski’s courage and testimony, conveyed in a breathtaking manner in Story of a Secret State, offer the narrative of one of the world’s greatest eyewitnesses and an inspiration for all of humanity, emboldening each of us to rise to the challenge of standing up against evil and for human rights. This definitive edition—which includes a foreword by Madeleine Albright, a biographical essay by Yale historian Timothy Snyder, an afterword by Zbigniew Brzezinski, previously unpublished photos, notes, further reading, and a glossary—is an apt legacy for this hero of conscience during the most fraught and fragile moment in modern history.
Creating the Secret State
Creating the Secret State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Creating the Secret State write by David F. Rudgers. This book was released on 2000. Creating the Secret State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Formerly a staff archivist for the National Archives and a senior intelligence analyst with the Central Intelligence Agency, Rudgers challenges the popular view that the Agency was principally the brainchild of former OSS chief William J. Donovan. Rather, he explains, the centralization of intelligence was part of a larger reorganization of the US government during the transition from World War II to the Cold War. He also documents how it swerved from its original purpose of guarding against sneak attacks to taking part in clandestine activity against the Soviet Union. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
North Korea Undercover
North Korea Undercover - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook North Korea Undercover write by John Sweeney. This book was released on 2015-07-15. North Korea Undercover available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. North Korea is like no other tyranny on earth. Its citizens are told their home is the greatest nation on earth. Big Brother is always watching: It is Orwell's 1984 made reality.Award-winning BBC journalist John Sweeney is one of the few foreign journalists to have witnessed the devastating reality of life in the controversial and isolated nation of North Korea, having entered the country undercover, posing as a university professor with a group of students from the London School of Economics. Huge factories with no staff or electricity; hospitals with no patients; uniformed child soldiers; and the world-famous and eerily empty DMZ—the DeMilitarized Zone, where North Korea ends and South Korea begins—all framed by the relentless flow of regime propaganda from omnipresent loudspeakers. Free speech is an illusion: one word out of line and the gulag awaits. State spies are everywhere, ready to punish disloyalty and the slightest sign of discontent.Drawing on his own experiences and his extensive interviews with defectors and other key witnesses, Sweeney's North Korea Undercover pulls back the curtain, providing a rare insight into life there today, examining the country's troubled history and addressing important questions about its uncertain future.
A Very British Coup
A Very British Coup - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Very British Coup write by Chris Mullin. This book was released on 2010. A Very British Coup available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The classic political thriller that foretold the rise of Corbyn, from the acclaimed author of A View from the Foothills
Undue Risk
Undue Risk - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Undue Risk write by Jonathan D. Moreno. This book was released on 2013-05-13. Undue Risk available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the courtrooms of Nuremberg to the battlefields of the Gulf War, Undue Risk exposes a variety of government policies and specific cases, includingplutonium injections to unwilling hospital patients, and even the attempted recruitment of Nazi medical scientists bythe U.S. government after World War II.
