this year's judges were julia keller, anthony depalma and kerry greenridge. this year's winner is author jane requested for surviving katya. stallings alyssa massacre and athe search for truth. jane is a british author and filmmaker of polish origin and is also the author of detail, inventing robert with particular interest in utterly and. on the cold war in europe. the judge is right in their citation. it is so chilly and brutal abstraction of the phrase masquerade surviving button provides an eloquent and crucial clarification for individuals, those 22,000 a prisoners of war secretly murdered during world war ii and buried in the polish forest. for decades the crime was laying on the nazis. as she traces a quietly masterful breath evidence now proves that stalin personally ordered the massacre. thus her book is part detective story , part historical narrative, part biography of the victims and part moral reckoning a. with urgent relevance to contemporary conflict. congratulations jane. [applause] >>. >> this years finalist for the mark linton history prize