Stalins mord i Katyń

In the spring of 1940 Stalin had tens of thousands of Polish officers, policemen and members of the country's elite executed. The mass graves at Katyń became a symbol — and a lie the Soviet Union maintained for half a century, until 1990.

Drawing on archives in East and West, Peter Johnsson follows the crime and its aftermath into our own time, when Katyń once again became politics. The book was awarded the Polonica Prize and named by critics one of the three best non-fiction books of 2010.