Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine

by Timothy Snyder

Book Overview

The forgotten protagonist of this true account aspired to be a cubist painter in his native Ky?v. In a Europe remade by the First World War, his talents led him to different roles-intelligence operative, powerful statesman, underground activist, lifelong conspirator. Henryk J?zewski directed Polish intelligence in Ukraine, governed the borderland region of Volhynia in the interwar years, worked in the anti-Nazi and anti-Soviet underground during the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300125992
• ISBN13: 9780300125993
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"