{"product_id":"9780861543038","title":"Surviving Katyn: Stalin's Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe Katyn Massacre of 22,000 Polish prisoners of war is a crime to which there are no witnesses\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCommitted in utmost secrecy in April-May 1940 by the NKVD on the direct orders of Joseph Stalin, for nearly fifty years the Soviet regime succeeded in maintaining the fiction that Katyn was a Nazi atrocity, their story unchallenged by Western governments fearful of upsetting a powerful wartime ally and Cold War adversary. \u003ci\u003eSurviving Katyn\u003c\/i\u003e explores the decades-long search for answers, focusing on the experience of those individuals with the most at stake - the few survivors of the massacre and the Polish wartime forensic investigators - whose quest for the truth in the face of an inscrutable, unknowable, and utterly ruthless enemy came at great personal cost.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A gripping reconstruction... utterly compelling reading.' Adam Zamoyski\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Vividly recreates the last months of the officers - artists, scientists, engineers and poets as well as career military men - who were initially held at three special camps run by the NKVD.' \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Riveting.' Serhii Plokhy\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Oneworld Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42742598205501,"sku":"9780861543038","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780861543038_p0.jpg?v=1771584220","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.mom\/products\/9780861543038","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}