Kazimierz Moczarski 19071975 was a journalist soldier and political prisoner. His life exemplifies a Central European biography under Nazism and Comunism. The addictive and moving Civility in Uncivil Times reveals the story of a man who defended law and democracy all his life. Moczarski fought for it in the authoritarian Poland of the 1930s. During the Second World War he partook in the resistance movement. After the war he spent eleven years in a Stalinist prison including nine months in one cell with the Nazi Jrgen Stroop who commanded the brutal pacification of the Warsaw Ghetto. The communists imprisoned Moczarskis wife. After release he rebuilt the broken marriage rejoined social life and wrote a work about meeting Stroop. Translated into many languages Conversations with the Executioner is a thorough study of totalitarianism.