The Volunteer

Publisher's Summary

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Volunteer, by Jack Fairweather.

How do you keep fighting in the face of unimaginable horror?

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 Nazis' terrifying designs. Over the next two and a half years, Witold forged an underground army that smuggled evidence of Nazi atrocities, culminating in the mass murder of over a million Jews, to the West. 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major account of his amazing journey, drawing on exclusive family papers and recently declassified files as well as unpublished accounts from the camp’s fighters to show how he saved hundreds of thousands of lives.

The result is a enthralling story of resistance and heroism against the most horrific circumstances and one man’s attempt to change the course of history.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2019 Jack Fairweather (P)2019 Penguin Audio

Absolutely brilliant

A gripping and unique narrative brilliantly wending the story of an incredible man at the epicentre of one of the darkest times of human history with the broader political setting. And a call to moral courage which surpasses history.

It's a truth beyond belief and a hero who lived it

Ultimately it will show you how much good we are still capable of and how that is so important today.
if you have in any way come to contact wit concentration camps (German, Russian, Chinese or any other) topic or would like to know one of the least known but most unbelievable and amazing stories of the WW2, you need to read this.
This book will help you understand so much more about German Death Camps and will restore your faith in other people at the same time.
I would love to see a well made movie based on this book; it reads like a the best of page turner thrillers.