The Katyn Massacre 1940 : History of a Crime

Author(s): Urban, Thomas

Binding:	Hardcover
Volume Condition:	Near Fine
Dust Jacket:	No
Dust Jacket Condition:	Near Fine
Edition:	1st UK Edition
Language:	English
Publisher Name:	Pen and Sword Military
Publication Year:	2020
ISBN:	9781526775351
Book ID:	004368
Catalogue(s):	History - General ◇ War, Military History and Weapons

x, 280pp. Illustrated (in monochrome) and indexed. Red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering. In its original dust jacket. Neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. A harrowing chronicle about the murder of a thousands of Polish officers in 1940, based on accounts of perpetrators and wtinesses, shedding light on how the US spy William J Donovan thwarted Soviet strategy at the Nuremburg Trials and how the Soviet Katyn Lie contributed to the fall of the Eastern Bloc.

Keywords:

second world war military history spy espionage war crimes