# Surviving Katyn: Stalin's Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth - Hardcover

by **Jane Rogoyska** (Author)

**WINNER OF THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE**

**LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE**

**'A gripping reconstruction... utterly compelling reading.' Adam Zamoyski**

**'This is a grim story, thoroughly researched and brilliantly told.' Geoffrey Alderman, _Times Higher Education_**

**The Katyn Massacre of 22,000 Polish prisoners of war is a crime to which there are no witnesses.**

Committed 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. _Surviving Katyn_ 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.

### Author Biography

Jane Rogoyska is the acclaimed author of _Gerda Taro: Inventing Robert_ _Capa_. She has a particular interest in the turbulent period from the 1930s to the Cold War in Europe. Her research into the Katyn Massacre led to her first novel, _Kozlowski_ (long-listed for the Desmond Elliott Prize) and _Still Here: A Polish Odyssey_ which she wrote and presented for BBC Radio 4.

**Number of Pages:** 400

**Dimensions:** 1.5 x 9.2 x 6.4 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** June 08, 2021

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