The Volunteer

Non-fiction. 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. A meticulously researched account of the two and a half years he spent forging a resistance within the camp, and gathering evidence of horrifying abuse and mass murder.