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Jack Fairweather

UK · Holocaust — resistance biography

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British journalist and former war correspondent. The Volunteer, his life of Witold Pilecki, who had himself sent to Auschwitz to report on it, won the Costa Book of the Year.

Books in Database (1)

The Volunteer cover
The Volunteer 2019 · 505 pages

Witold Pilecki volunteered to be imprisoned in Auschwitz — to build a resistance cell inside and smuggle out the truth.

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Events Covered

1941 The Holocaust