General Information

Uniform Title

Kurier z Warszawy.

Author/Creator

Nowak, Jan, 1913-2005.

Language

English.

Published

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 1982.

Physical Description

477 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subjects

Subject

Nowak, Jan, 1913-2005.

World War, 1939-1945 > Underground movements > Poland > Biography.

World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, Polish.

World War, 1939-1945 > Diplomatic history.

Diplomatic couriers > Poland > Biography.

Diplomatic couriers > Great Britain > Biography.

Poland > History > Occupation, 1939-1945.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

by Jan Nowak.

Note

Translation of Kurier z Warszawy.

"Jan Nowak served as director of the Polish Section of Radio Free Europe from its inception to 1976."

Includes index.

Content

Father's forgotten ducat unfolds my future -- Nazis invade Poland -- Warsaw after the surrender -- Topography of the underground -- Lavatory leaflets -- Action N expands -- A rent-collector's double life -- Prospects in the Baltic -- Two nights in a coal bin -- Stockholm, a city of spies -- A coal mattress again -- Trouble on the underground railway -- "Robak" under death sentence, a major disaster in Poznan -- "Black week" 1943 -- Wishful thinking of the underground politician -- A note from "Zbik" in prison -- Briefing by the AK big three: "be like a sponge" -- I become "Jan Nowak" -- At the "Patriotic School" in London -- The political geography of Polish London -- Attitudes of the Allies toward Poland -- Conversations with the British -- An "editorial lunch" at the Times -- The anti-Polish intrigues of Churchill's aide -- Censorship at the BBC and Polish Radio -- Unsuccessful parachute jump spoils my plans -- General Tatar hinders my return -- In Gibraltar with the commander-in-chief -- At Daybreak -- Return to the capital -- An emissary's late report -- Hotel, "Monter" 's headquarters -- Struggle to start up Radio Lightning -- Death of "Jula" -- Move to Ericsson -- A third-time emissary --A mistake and its victim -- On a circuit: Cracow-Czestochowa-Pruszkow -- Secret mail in the Jasna Gora chapel -- Across the Third Reich -- The long march -- Swiss interrogation -- A report from Warsaw in the world press.

Library Special Collection

HU OSA 300 - RFE/RL collection

ISBN

0814317251

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	940.53/438 NOW		General Stacks	-

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