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Rendezvous at Katyn: A novel based on one of the most shocking events in modern history
Rendezvous at Katyn A novel based on one of the most shocking events in modern history Author:Foster Furcolo This book is a novel--but it is far more than a novel. The protagonists are real people, the incidents are factually correct, and the story is truly an historical narration of events that shook--and continue to shake--the nations of the world. If there be such a literary form as a "documentary novel", it comes to life in Rendezvous at Katyn. — If... more » this book had been written at the time of the Katyn events, the course of modern history might have been drastically altered. The Communists might not have been given a free hand in so many countries that are now enslaved satellites of Communism--and parhaps the Berlin Wall would never have been built. But the facts about Katyn were suppressed, despite so-called "official investigations" by Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia.
Even though the United States Congress entered the picture with its own investigation and subsequent Resolution still pending in the United Nations, the peoples of the world are still largely ignorant of what really happened at Katyn--a whispered word that stands for one of the deepest mysteries and intrigues in history.« less