The Volunteer: One Man's Mission to Lead an Underground Army in Auschwitz and Expose the Greatest Nazi Crimes by Jack Fairweather

The Volunteer: One Man's Mission to Lead an Underground Army in Auschwitz and Expose the Greatest Nazi Crimes

Jack Fairweather

528 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction biography history emotional sad medium-paced

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Would you sacrifice yourself to save thousands of others?In the Summer of 1940, after the Nazi occupation of Poland, an underground operative called Witold Pilecki accepted a mission to uncover the fate of thousands of people being interned at a n...

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