The volunteer : one man, and underground army, and the secret mission to destroy Auschwitz /
by Fairweather, Jack [author.].
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BookPublisher: London : WH Allen, 2019Description: xvi, 505 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780753545164 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 940.5318 FAISubject(s): Pilecki, Witold, 1901-1948 | Auschwitz (Concentration camp) | World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Poland | Warfare and Defence | Warfare and DefenceSummary: This is untold story of one of the greatest heroes of the Second World War. 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 interred 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 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.
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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| Book - Adult Hardback | Crosby Library | Adult Non-Fiction | 940.5318 FAI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 003032064X | |||
| Book - Adult Hardback | Southport Library | Adult Non-Fiction | 940.5318 FAI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 003032566X |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This is untold story of one of the greatest heroes of the Second World War. 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 interred 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 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.
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