The Great Powers and Poland: From Versailles to Yalta by Karski, Jan

The Great Powers and Poland: From Versailles to Yalta (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781442226647)

Vendor: Jan Karski
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Format: Hardcover
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The Great Powers and Poland: From Versailles to Yalta by Karski, Jan

The Great Powers and Poland: From Versailles to Yalta

$92.00
The Great Powers and Poland: From Versailles to Yalta by Karski, Jan

The Great Powers and Poland: From Versailles to Yalta

$92.00
Format: Hardcover
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This definitive study provides a comprehensive diplomatic history of Poland during the most seminal period in its existence, when its destiny lay in the hands of France, Great Britain, and the United States. Although sovereign in principle, Poland was little more than an object of the Great Powers' politics and rapidly changing relationships from the end of WWI to the end of WWII. Focusing on the shifting policies of the Great Powers toward Poland from the Treaty of Versailles to Yalta, the book ends with Poland's tragic abandonment by the West into the hands of the Soviet Union. Enriched by unique anecdotal and archival material, this book will be essential reading for all those seeking to understand Poland's role in twentieth-century history.

Author: Jan Karski
ISBN-10: 1442226641
ISBN-13: 9781442226647
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 01/16/2014
Pages: 540
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.85lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.60d
By Jan Karski
By Jan Karski
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Jan Karski (1914-2000) was a young diplomat when Hitler invaded Poland in 1939. Taken prisoner by the Soviet Red Army, Karski escaped and joined the Polish underground. He infiltrated both the Warsaw Ghetto and a German concentration camp and then carried the first eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust to a mostly disbelieving West. After World War II, Karski earned a Ph.D. from Georgetown University, where he served as a distinguished professor in the School of Foreign Service for forty years.

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