Jack Fairweather.
JACK FAIRWEATHER: witold pilecki biography
The Volunteer: The Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz (2019)
Winner of the 2019 Costa Prize for Biography.
Witold Pilecki (born 1901) was a Polish cavalry officer, intelligence agent, and resistance leader. When Poland was invaded by Germany in the Second World War Pilecki was joint founder of the Secret Polish army resistance movement.
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Jack Fairweather (born 1978) is an English journalist and author, who was educated at Atlantic College and at Lincoln College, Oxford University. He worked as a freelance war correspondent embedded with British Troops during the 2003 Iraq invasion, surviving an attempted kidnapping and an attempted attack by a suicide bomber. He met his wife Christina Asquith while she was working in Iraq for he New York Times. His other books include: ‘The Good War: Why We Couldn’t Win the War or the Peace in Afghanistan’.
