Katyn A Crime Without Punishment

Name: Katyn A Crime Without Punishment
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ISBN: 9780300108514

ISBN-10: 0300108516

ISBN-13: 9780300108514

Edition: 2007

Authors: Anna M. Cienciala, Natalia S. Lebedeva, Marian Schwartz, Maia A. Kipp, Wojciech Materski

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The 14,500 Polish army officers, police, gendarmes, and civilians taken prisoner by the Red Army when it invaded eastern Poland in September 1939 were held in three special NKVD camps and executed at three different sites in spring 1940, of which the one in Katyn Forest is the most famous. Another 7,300 prisoners held in NKVD jails in Ukraine and Belarus were also shot at this time, although many others disappeared without trace. The murder of these Poles is among the most monstrous mass murders undertaken by any modern government. Three leading historians of the NKVD massacres of Polish prisoners of war at Katyn, Kharkov, and Tver--now subsumed under "Katyn"--present 122 documents…

Book details

List price: $75.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 1/28/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 624
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Preface


Note on the Documents


Notes on Russian Transliteration and Polish Pronunciation


List of Abbreviations and Acronyms



Prisoners of an Undeclared War, 23 August 1939-5 March 1940



Extermination, March-June 1940



Katyn and Its Echoes, 1940 to the Present


List of Documents with Sources


Appendix of Camp Statistics


Biographical Sketches


Glossary of Organizations and Political Parties


Maps and Aerial Photographs


Notes


Illustration Credits


Index