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Title: Surviving Katyn: Stalin’s Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth
Author: ROGOYSKA,JANE
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 06/05/2021
Imprint: ONEWORLD PUBLISHERS
Price: $39.99
Publishing status: NOT YET PUBLISHED
‘A work of significant moral clarity and elegant precision.’ Kirkus, starred review
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.
ISBN: 9781786078926
Dimension: 234mm X 153mm
Pages: 400