Format
Häftad (B-format paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
528
Utgivningsdatum
2020-01-09
Förlag
Ebury Publishing
Dimensioner
197 x 126 x 32 mm
Vikt
364 g
ISBN
9780753545188

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The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz - Costa Book of the Year 2019

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Häftad,  Engelska, 2020-01-09
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One of the Sunday Times paperbacks of the Year 2020 One of the Financial Times best books of 2020 'Totally gripping'-- Simon Sebag Montefiore 'Pilecki is perhaps one of the greatest unsung heroes of the second world war ... this insightful book is likely to be the definitive version of this extraordinary life' -- Economist 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 new concentration camp on the border of the Reich. His mission was to report on Nazi crimes and raise a secret army to stage an uprising. The name of the detention centre -- Auschwitz. It was only after arriving at the camp that he started to discover the Nazi's terrifying plans. Over the next two and half years, Witold forged an underground army that smuggled evidence of Nazi atrocities out of Auschwitz. His reports from the camp were to shape the Allies response to the Holocaust - yet his story was all but forgotten for decades. This is the first major account to draw on unpublished family papers, newly released archival documents and exclusive interviews with surviving resistance fighters to show how he brought the fight to the Nazis at the heart of their evil designs. The result is an enthralling story of resistance and heroism against the most horrific circumstances, and one man's attempt to change the course of history.
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  1. Witold Pilecki var en sann hjälte
    Christian Schwinghammer (Täby), 17 november 2020

    Den fascinerande och djupt gripande sanna historien om den unge polske officern Witold Pilecki, som efter Polens kapitulation 1939 går med i den polska motståndsrörelsen. Senare under 1940 när rykten börjar spridas om koncentrationslägret Auschwitz utanför Kraków så låter sig Pilecki friviligt arresteras av tyskarna och föras till lägret för att undersöka det och verksamheten från insidan. Som koncentrationslägersfånge organiserar han motstånd, genomför sabotage men kanske främst samlar infor... Läs hela recensionen

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Jack Fairweather is an award-winning and bestselling British writer and journalist. His last book The Volunteer won the Costa Book Prize and was a #1 Sunday Times bestseller, hailed as a modern classic and compared to Schindler's List. He splits his time between the UK and Vermont.