{"product_id":"surviving-katyn-jane-rogoyska-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\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jane Rogoyska\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0861543033\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780861543038\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e ONEWorld Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/10\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.40h x 5.00w x 1.40d","brand":"Jane Rogoyska","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43993359843583,"sku":"9780861543038","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c04c5fe1-2fe2-486f-8c97-b39d734b35a5.jpg?v=1683323913","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/surviving-katyn-jane-rogoyska-9780861543038","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}