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With exclusive access to previously hidden diaries, family and camp survivor accounts, and recently declassified files, critically acclaimed and award-winning journalist Jack Fairweather brilliantly portrays the remarkable man who volunteered to face the unknown in the name of truth and country. This extraordinary and eye-opening account of the Holocaust invites us all to bear witness.Occupied Warsaw, Summer 1940: Witold Pilecki, a Polish unde...

Eine wahre Geschichte über Widerstand und den Versuch eines Mannes, den Lauf der Geschichte zu ändern. Im Sommer 1940, nach der Besetzung Polens durch die Nazis, nahm der polnische Untergrundagent Witold Pilecki eine Mission an, um das Schicksal Tausender Menschen aufzudecken, die in einem eben erst errichteten Konzentrationslager interniert waren. Seine Mission war es, über die dortigen Verbrechen zu berichten und im Geheimen eine Truppe a...

The second edition of this educational book provides an updated resource on how best to discuss and manage acute and chronic presentations of renal diseases. All chapters have been reviewed and updated to reflect changes which directly affect clinical practice and new chapters have been added including Dialysis and Poisoning, Urinalysis/Microscopy and Renal Biopsy. Chapters now include information on key clinical trials for management strategi...

The second edition of this educational book provides an updated resource on how best to discuss and manage acute and chronic presentations of renal diseases. All chapters have been reviewed and updated to reflect changes which directly affect clinical practice and new chapters have been added including Dialysis and Poisoning, Urinalysis/Microscopy and Renal Biopsy. Chapters now include information on key clinical trials for management strategi...

An extraordinary, eye-opening account of the Holocaust. A new edition of Jack Fairweather's Costa Book of the Year for children aged 12 and up.

Occupied Warsaw, Summer 1940: Witold Pilecki, a Polish underground operative, accepted a mission to uncover the fate of thousands interned at a new concentration camp, report on Nazi crimes, raise a secret army, and stage an uprising. The name of the camp--Auschwitz. Over the next two and half years, and under the cruelest of conditions, Pilecki's underground sabotaged facilities, assassinated Nazi officers, and gathered evidence of terrifying...

The true story of a Polish resistance fighter's infiltration of Auschwitz to sabotage the camp from within, and his attempt to warn the Allies about the Nazis' plans for a "Final Solution" before it was too late. Witold Pilecki volunteered for an audacious mission: he was to execute an attack from the inside.

The incredible true story of a Polish resistance fighter’s infiltration of Auschwitz to sabotage the camp from within, and his death-defying attempt to warn the Allies about the Nazis’ plans for a “Final Solution” before it was too lateTo uncover the fate of the thousands being interred at a mysterious Nazi camp on the border of the Reich, a thirty-nine-year-old Polish resistance fighter named Witold Pilecki volunteered for an audacious missio...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD'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' -- EconomistWould 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 missio...

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The incredible true story of a Polish resistance fighter’s infiltration of Auschwitz to sabotage the camp from within, and his death-defying attempt to warn the Allies about the Nazis’ plans for a “Final Solution” before it was too lateTo uncover the fate of the thousands being interred at a mysterious Nazi camp on the border of the Reich, a thirty-nine-year-old Polish resistance fighter named Witold Pilecki volunteered for an audacious missio...

How do you keep fighting in the face of unimaginable horror? Witold Pilecki was an incredible Second World War hero who infiltrated Auschwitz, assassinated Nazi guards, escaped and spread news of the Holocaust to the Allied Powers. This is the untold story of one of the greatest heroes of the Second World War, and a gripping story of defiance, rebellion and escape from a Nazi death camp.

Fairweather provides the first full narrative of the war in Afghanistan, drawing on 100s of interviews, previously unpublished archives and months of experience living and working there. It is a searing look at the true cost of America's 'Good War.

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