died in Warsaw on 20 January 2005. He donated all his archives to the Ossolineum Institute. Censorship in Russia A selection of Nowak's texts has been confiscated in Saint Petersburg, Russia by the FSB. Awards Knight's Cross of the Virtuti Militari (1944, highest Polish military award) Cross of Valour (Krzyż Walecznych) Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Merit of the Polish Republic (1993) Order of the White Eagle (highest Polish award, 1994) Presidential Medal of Freedom (highest civilian award in the United States, 1996) Grand Cross of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas (the highest Lithuanian civilian award, 1998) King's Medal for Courage in the Cause of Freedom (United Kingdom) Kisiel Prize (1999) Lumen Mundi (2001) Ksawery Pruszyński Award (2001) Man of Reconciliation (2002), awarded by the Polish Council of Christians and Jews for his contribution to Christian-Jewish dialogue in Poland Wiktor Award and Superwiktor (2003) Awards of the Academy of Television Gold Statue of the Business Centre Club for his contribution to the development of Polish democracy awarded by Business Centre Club (2003) Honorary citizen of Warsaw, Gdansk and Kraków Prize. Xavier Pruszynski, granted by the Polish PEN Club Golden Microphone Diamond Microphone Bibliography Among other books, he wrote: Polska droga ku wolnosci, 1952–1973, London, 1974. Courier from Warsaw (Kurier z Warszawy, published in London 1978, Polish underground edition 1981, official edition in 1989, published in English in 1982 by Wayne State University Press) Ideological competition in United States' strategy, Polish American Congress, 1980. Polska została sobą, 1980. Wojna w eterze (War on the Radio, memoirs 1948–1956), 1986. Kryptonim "Odra" (Code-name Odra), Warsaw, 1986. Polska z oddali. Wspomnienia 1956–1976 (Poland from the distance), 1988 Poland and Germany (Occasional paper / East European Studies), Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1991. Z dziejów Armii Krajowej w inspektoracie Płocko-Sierpeckim, Płock, 1992. W poszukiwaniu nadziei (In Search for Hope), 1993 Rozmowy o Polsce, Warsaw, 1995. Polska wczoraj, dzis i jutro (Poland today, tomorrow and the day after), Warsaw, 1999. Listy 1952–1998 (Letters 1952–1998), Wrocław, 2001. Poland's Road to NATO, Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Ossolineum, Wrocław 2006, In popular culture A dramatic feature film about the wartime experiences of Nowak-Jeziorański and the Warsaw Uprising, entitled (The Messenger; U.S. title: The Resistance Fighter), was released in Poland in 2019 and in the United States in 2020. Directed by Polish filmmaker Wladyslaw Pasikowski, it stars