# Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World

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- Book: [Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World](https://www.bookquiver.com/jan-karski/story-of-a-secret-state-my-report-to-the-world) ([Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jan-karski/story-of-a-secret-state-my-report-to-the-world.md))
- Authors: [Jan Karski](https://www.bookquiver.com/jan-karski)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4140-738-7
- Pages: 480
- Published: 2019-04-25
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'Insistently asks the question: What would you do? Would you fight, or acquiesce, or collaborate? ... Karski was deeply patriotic and ludicrously brave ... an astonishing testament of survival' Ben Macintyre , author of Operation Mincemeat It is 1939. Jan Karski, a brilliant young Polish student, enjoys a life of parties and pleasure. Then war breaks out and his familiar world is destroyed. Now he must live under a new identity, in the resistance. And, in a secret mission that could change the course of the war, he must risk his own life to try and save those of millions.