Publisher's Synopsis
Occupied Warsaw, Summer 1940: Witold Pilecki, a Polish underground operative, accepted a mission to uncover the fate of thousands interned at a newconcentration 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 cruellest of conditions, Pilecki's underground sabotaged facilities, assassinatedNazi officers, and gathered evidence of terrifying abuse and mass murder. But as he pieced together the horrifying Nazi plans toexterminate Europe's Jews, Pilecki realized he would have to risk his men, his life, and his family to warn the West before all waslost. To do so meant attempting the impossible -- but first he would have to escape from Auschwitz itself..
