Description
Book SynopsisAn account that covers Russian attempts to recant their admission of guilt for the murders in Katyn Forest and includes translated documents from Russian military archives, eyewitness accounts of two perpetrators, and secret official minutes that confirm that US government cover-up of the crime continued long after the war ended.
Trade ReviewA moving reconstruction of the human side of these events... the volume is especially valuable in its tracing of individuals and families through the barbarous darkness of the 1940s.
* The New York Times *
Not only a riveting human drama but a powerful historical exposé.
-- Zbigniew Brzezinski, former U.S. national security adviser
Allen has given us the complete story of Katyn. A wonderful companion to my film!
-- Andrzej Wajda, Academy Award-winning Director of
KatynPoles everywhere fell in love with this book. Twice a bestseller in Poland.
-- Malgorzata Maruszkin, Publisher-Non-Fiction, Bertelsmann/Poland
Paul marshals an impressive array of research gathered from unpublished documents, monographs, and interviews to support his interpretations. The detailed personal experiences of three Polish families woven through the text transform what otherwise would be a standard historical narrative into a poignant testimony to the remarkable capacity of human beings to endure tyranny in its most inhumane form.
* The Washington Post *
As Allen Paul makes plain in his often moving history of the Katyn massacres, Stalin's execution order was a deliberate attempt to eliminate the Polish educated classes and clear the ground for eventual Soviet dominance of the country.
* The New York Review of Books *
Allen Paul has thoroughly researched the murders, but more important, he has laid bare the massive cover-up of the murders and of the Soviet guilt—a cover-up that appears to have involved Roosevelt and Churchill, as well as Stalin.
* The Boston Globe *
Vividly written, intensely personal and passionately anti-Soviet.
* St. Louis Post-Dispatch *
A masterful chronicle.... Paul tenaciously tracks the Katyn cover-up and its festering repercussions.
* Publisher's Weekly *
