The Costa winner on his Auschwitz book: 'This is my greatest honour'

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Costa-winner Jack Fairweather reveals the extraordinary story behind The Volunteer, his book about a Polish resistance hero who infiltrated the Nazi death camp

One spring day in 1948, two children were sitting at their school desks in Poland when the tannoy crackled into life to announce that their father had just been executed as an enemy of the state. Andrzej and Zofia Pilecki knew nothing about the mission that had taken their father away from them for most of their childhood. It was only when they were in their 60s, as the iron curtain fell, that the details of Witold Pilecki’s extraordinary second world war mission began to emerge.

 

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