Fascinating biography which reads as a breath-taking novel. It not only portrays Jan Kozielewski (Karski was his pseudonym of the war-time underground, by which he became known to the world) as a young man, but also tells a lot of Poland and Europe on the brink of the second world war. If not to Palestine, Jews should emigrate to the Island of Madagascar - was a common view held by some right-wing circles in Poland. This was not a joke. Not once did Karski encounter growing anti-semitic atmosphere both, in his native Poland, as well as in Western European capitals where he was employed as a beginner in diplomacy.