The Messenger

Name: The Messenger
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ISBN: 9781921758003

Yannick Haenel, Ian Monk

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English

Text Publishing Company
31 January 2011

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Jan Karski, a young Polish diplomat turned cavalry officer, joined the Polish underground movement after escaping from a Soviet detention camp in 1939. He served as a courier for the underground, ferrying messages between occupied Poland and the exiled Polish leaders, before he was captured and brutally tortured by the Gestapo.

Escaping from the Germans, Jan Karski was charged with the mission of his lifetime- to convey a message to the Allies about Hitler's program to exterminate the Jews of Europe. He visited Warsaw's Jewish Ghetto so that he could relate the truth about inhuman conditions first hand when he met, soon after, with leaders and top officials in London and President Roosevelt in Washington.

He had the ears of the decision-makers, yet nothing was done to prevent the ultimate fate of millions of Jews.

Published to immense acclaim in France, under the title Jan Karski, The Messenger is a compelling and tragic story. An extraordinary novelised biography about a man's moral courage and our collective humanity, with parallels to Thomas Keneally's Schindler's Ark and WG Sebald's Austerliz.

By: Yannick Haenel
Translated by: Ian Monk
Imprint: Text Publishing Company
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 262g
ISBN: 9781921758003
ISBN 10: 1921758007
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 31 January 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Yannick Haenel is the author of several novels, including Introduction a la mort francaise and Evoluer parmi les avalanches.