Serialization The "Sinister Shock of War"
in The Chicago Daily Tribune (Chicago, IL, USA) (May 16, 1915): (Page imagery not yet available)
- First serialized as The Shock of War. Through Germany to Cracow in The Daily News & Leader (London, UK) (Mar 29, 1915)
- Subsequently serialized as To Poland in War-Time. A Journey into the Past in The Daily News & Leader (London, UK) (Mar 31, 1915)
- Subsequently serialized as To Poland, through Germany, as the War Broke Out in The Boston Evening Transcript (Boston, MA, USA) (Apr 3, 1915)
- Subsequently serialized as Poland Revisited: The North Sea on the Eve of War in The Daily News & Leader (London, UK) (Apr 6, 1915)
- Subsequently serialized as My Return to Cracow. Poland in War-Time in The Daily News & Leader (London, UK) (Apr 9, 1915)
- Subsequently extracted as Joseph Conrad's Visit to War-Time Poland in The Boston Evening Transcript (Boston, MA, USA) (Apr 10, 1915)
- Subsequently serialized as End of Joseph Conrad's 'War-Time Poland' in The Boston Evening Transcript (Boston, MA, USA) (Apr 17, 1915)
- Collected as Poland Revisited in Notes on Life and Letters (1921)
- Subsequently serialized as Retour en Pologne in La Revue de France (Paris, France) (Feb 1936 — Mar 1936)
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p.A5. Extract of 1493 words from first part of "Poland Revisited" begins: "I have never believed in political assassination as a means to an end, and least of all in assassinations of the dynastic order. I don't know how far murder can ever approach the perfection of a fine art, but looked upon with the cold eye of reason it seems but a crude..."
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