{"product_id":"the-volunteer-the-true-story-of-the-resistance-hero-who-infiltrated-auschwitz-costa-book-of-the-year-2019","title":"The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz FIRST EDITION","description":"\u003cp\u003eFairweather, Jack.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRandom House UK, 2018.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: some wearing on edge. 1st Edition. Cover different to paperback.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Totally gripping'-- Simon Sebag Montefiore\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWould you sacrifice yourself to save thousands of others?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is untold story of one of the greatest heroes of the Second World War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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 new concentration camp on the border of the Reich.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis mission was to report on Nazi crimes and raise a secret army to stage an uprising. The name of the detention centre -- Auschwitz.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt was only after arriving at the camp that he started to discover the Nazi’s terrifying designs. Over the next two and half years, Witold forged an underground army that smuggled evidence of Nazi atrocities to the West, culminating in the mass murder of over a million Jews. His reports from the camp were to shape the Allies response to the Holocaust - yet his story was all but forgotten for decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the first major account of his amazing journey, drawing on exclusive family papers and recently declassified files as well as unpublished accounts from the camp’s fighters to show how he saved hundreds of thousands of lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe result is a enthralling story of resistance and heroism against the most horrific circumstances, and one man’s attempt to change the course of history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJack Fairweather is a British writer and former war reporter in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the author of A War of Choice, The Good War and The Volunteer. He splits his time between the UK and Vermont.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Old Harbour Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56316035760512,"sku":"NFIC.HIS-2018-JF-VG","price":15.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0933\/7867\/5072\/files\/Screenshot2025-08-0521.40.23.png?v=1754426442","url":"https:\/\/oldharbourbooks.scot\/products\/the-volunteer-the-true-story-of-the-resistance-hero-who-infiltrated-auschwitz-costa-book-of-the-year-2019","provider":"Old Harbour Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}