The Messenger by Haenel, Yannick (2011) Paperback - Softcover
Jan Karski, a young Polish diplomat turned cavalry officer, joined the Polish underground movement after escaping from a Soviet detention camp in 1939. He served as a courier for the underground, ferrying messages between occupied Poland and the exiled Polish leaders, before he was captured and brutally tortured by the Gestapo.Escaping from the Germans, Jan Karski was charged with the mission of his lifetime: to convey a message to the Allies about Hitler's program to exterminate the Jews of Europe. He visited Warsaw's Jewish Ghetto so that he could relate the truth about inhuman conditions first hand when he met, soon after, with leaders and top officials in London and President Roosevelt in Washington. He had the ears of the decision-makers, yet nothing was done to prevent the ultimate fate of millions of Jews.Published to immense acclaim in France, The Messenger is a compelling and tragic story. An extraordinary novelized biography about a man's moral cou
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Yannick Haenel is the author of several novels, including Introduction à la mort française and Évoluer parmi les avalanches. In Paris in 1997, he cofounded the avant-garde journal for literature, Ligne de risque. The Messenger, published in France under the title Jan Karski, won the Prix Interallié and the Prix du roman FNAC in 2009.
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This imaginative rendering of the facts demonstrates why fiction is often the most effective way to tell the truth... A compelling paean to a courageous human being who understood that evil has no reason.” Booklist
This imaginative rendering of the facts demonstrates why fiction is often the most effective way to tell the truth... A compelling paean to a courageous human being who understood that evil has no reason.” Booklist
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- PublisherText Publishing, Melbourne Australia
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1921758007
- ISBN 13 9781921758003
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- Number of pages208
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