{"product_id":"9780715655771","title":"Martial Arts Pocket Guide","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Kazimierz Moczarski\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePoland\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 27 August 2026 by Duckworth Books (Duckworth) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 480 pages\u003cbr\u003e164 x 243 x 44 | 718g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Extraordinary, original, gripping, and painfully relevant to our times’ Philippe Sands'This is a fascinating and totally unexpected account of one of the darkest periods of the Second World War' Antony BeevorWarsaw, 1949: freedom fighter and journalist Kazimierz Moczarski is being held in a maximum security prison, accused of being an enemy of the state by the Polish secret police. A survivor of the Warsaw Uprising, he is horrified to find himself locked up in a cell with the notorious Nazi official responsible for the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, and the death of over 50,000 people: Jürgen Stroop.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor 255 days Stroop talks to Moczarski of his life, entirely unrepentant of the crimes for which he would soon be executed himself. Conversations with an Executioner is Moczarski’s first-hand account of these extraordinary exchanges, an insight into the mind of one of history’s most brutal war criminals, and one that unflinchingly examines some of humanity’s darkest moments.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNever before published in the United Kingdom, Conversations with an Executioner is a book of enormous historical importance, written in masterful prose by a writer who tragically wouldn’t survive to see his work published.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Far From The Madding Crowd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49516197511427,"sku":"9780715655771","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0404\/3207\/4914\/files\/9780715655771.jpg?v=1787663746","url":"https:\/\/www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.com\/products\/9780715655771","provider":"Far From The Madding Crowd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}