Death in the Forest: The Story of the Katyn Forest Massacre

E-151: University of Notre Dame Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1972. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, IN, 1972. Xvii, 238 pgs. Illustrated with blak and white plates. Second Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (light scuffing and rubbing present to the DJ panels). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. "This is the reconstruction of the infamous Second World War annihilation of fifteen thousand prisoners of war, historically the larges assassination of prisoner-solders since Ghenghis Khan. Risponsibility for this mass execution became a point of international controversy and intrigue. Both the governments of the Soviet Union and Germany accused each other of the crime." List of Chapters; I. The Prisoners Who Vanished; II. The Graves in the Forest; III. The Inconvenient Allies --- Alive and Dead; IV. The Soviet Commission Investigation; V. Nuremberg: Crime and Punishment in International Politics; VI. Analysis of the Evidence; VII. Reconstruction: To the Edge of the Graves; VIII. Reconstruction: Marked to Live and Marked to Die; IX. Problems Caused by Katyn after the War with chapter notes, appendix, bibliography, index EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 235 pages .