A young reader’s edition of The Volunteer

• Jack Fairweather’s Costa Book of the Year.

An extraordinary, eye-opening account of the Holocaust.

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 cruellest of conditions,

Pilecki’s underground sabotaged facilities, assassinated

Nazi officers and gathered evidence of terrifying abuse and mass

murder.

But as he pieced together the horrifying Nazi plans

to exterminate Europe’s Jews, Pilecki realized he would have

to risk his men, his life and his family to warn the West before

all was lost. To do so meant attempting the impossible

• but first he would have to escape from

Auschwitz itself…

For children aged 12 and up. Written from 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.

This extraordinary and eye-opening account of the Holocaust invites

us all to bear witness.