wayne state univ press 1983 detroit (4 results)

Very good minus, light shelfwear. Cloth Lightly worn jacket with marginal tears.

German-Austrian Writers-New York 1st. ed. fine-.v.g. d.j. frayed. Please email for info concerning any book or dust jacket. If d.j. does not appear in description, it means there is no dust jacket. Photos on request. Some books may have remainder marks. Heavy and/or oversized books require additional postage.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Square 8vo, pictorial wraps.xi+155 pp. 131 illus. (plans & b/w photos of interiors and exteriors). Front cover lightly faded, else a near fine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Included. black full cloth hardbound 8vo. 8º (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. bit of sunfading, not torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings or store stamps, no stickers or bookplates, no names, no inking , no underlining, no remainder markings etc ~. 2nd printing. b&w frontis. portrait. 477p. +bio note. epilogue. personalities. appendix of documents. index. world history. espionage. covert operations. world war ii. eastern europe. partisans. american history. polish resistance. warsaw uprising. churchill . curzon. athony eden. pilsudsky. goebbels. komorowski. mikolajczyk. roosevelt. sikorksi. stalin. wolska. zenczykowski. ~ In the Foreword to this remarkable book, Zbigniew Brzezinski writes, "War memoirs can be fascinating, or revealing, or historically important. Rarely are they all three~but Courier from Warsaw is exactly that kind of book." Jan Nowak, as a secret courier of the Polish underground movement during World War II, was at the center of the intrigue and controversy between the Allies and the Soviet Union over the Polish question. Nowak gives us an eyewitness report in a book which was published in Polish in London and reprinted illegally in Poland. After the appearance of Courier in Poland, the publisher and the printer were arrested and put on trial; in 1981 the book was awarded the PULS Prize for an exceptional work in historical writing and for its outstanding contribution to Polish letters. (PULS is a literary/social journal which appears in Poland outside the censor's reach; it is a forum free from political control.) Nowak combines elements of suspense and war adventures with his account of historical events. During the war years he made a record number of five secret trips back and forth between Warsaw, Stockholm, and London. As an emissary he talked with Churchill, Eden, and other Allied leaders in futile attempts to obtain their support for Poland against Stalin's designs of subjugation. During the sixty~three days of bitter street fighting in the Warsaw Rising, Nowak was in charge of radio broadcasts in English. His dramatic memoir is important now, in Brzezinski's words, "because it provides acute insight into the psychology and organization of the Polish resistance . This will to resist asserted itself in 1944 and again in 1980 . Political censorship could not prevent Courier from Warsaw from being a tremendous success in Poland.".