During World War II, risking his life, he conducted underground lectures in German-occupied WarsawWładysław Tatarkiewicz, Wspomnienia (Memoirs), p. 165–68. (one of the audience members was Czesław Miłosz).Władysław Tatarkiewicz, Wspomnienia (Memoirs), p. 171. After the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising (August–October 1944) he again consciously risked his life when retrieving a manuscript from the gutter, where a German soldier had hurled it (this and other materials were later published as a book, in English translation titled Analysis of Happiness).* Władysław Tatarkiewicz, Analysis of Happiness, p. xi.
