The
volunteer
the true story of the resistance hero who infiltrated Auschwitz
Volunteer
the true story of the resistance hero who infiltrated Auschwitz
Fairweather, Jack
creator
text
bibliography
biography
enk
2020
monographic
eng
xviii, 505 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Summer 1940: Witold Pilecki, a Polish underground operative, accepted a mission to uncover the fate of thousands interned at a new concentration camp, report on Nazi crimes, raise a secret army and stage an uprising. The name of the camp - Auschwitz. Over the next two and half years, Pilecki forged an underground army within Auschwitz that sabotaged facilities, assassinated Nazi officers, and gathered evidence of terrifying abuse and mass murder. But as he pieced together the horrifying Nazi plans to exterminate Europe's Jews, Pilecki realized he would have to risk his men, his life, and his family to warn the West before all was lost. To do so meant attempting the impossible - but first he would have to escape from Auschwitz itself ...
Jack Fairweather.
Originally published: 2019.
"WH Allen is part of the Penguin Random House group"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-486) and index.
Pilecki, Witold
1901-1948
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
World War, 1939-1945
Underground movements
Poland
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