Memories of Starobielsk: Essays Between Art and History

by Józef Czapski

Vivid accounts of life in a Soviet prison camp by the author of Inhuman Land.

Interned with thousands of Polish officers in the Soviet prisoner-of-war camp at Starobielsk in September 1939, Józef Czapski was one of a very small number to survive the massacre in the forest of Katyń in April 1940. Memories of Starobielsk portrays these doomed men, some with the detail of a finished portrait, others in vivid sketches...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1681374862
• ISBN13: 9781681374864
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.9"