The Volunteer
by Jack Fairweather · 2019
Biography & Memoir · ranked #18 in category
Winner · The Costa Book of the Year, 2019
Witold Pilecki, a Polish resistance officer, volunteered to be captured and sent to Auschwitz in 1940 specifically to gather intelligence and build a resistance network from inside the camp. Fairweather's Costa Book of the Year-winning biography tells one of the most extraordinary and least-known stories of WWII resistance — a man who chose to enter the camp the rest of the world was trying to escape.
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