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#Giveaway Excerpt A REBEL IN AUSCHWITZ by Jack Fairweather @jackfairweather @Scholastic @RockstarBkTours Ends 10.24

October 10, 2021 By Mary

A REBEL IN AUSCHWITZ 

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the A REBEL IN AUSCHWITZ by Jack Fairweather Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!

 
About the Book:
Title: A REBEL IN AUSCHWITZ: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Fought the Nazis from Inside the Camp
Author: Jack Fairweather
Pub. Date: October 19, 2021
Publisher:  Scholastic Focus
Formats: Hardcover, eBook, Audiobook
Pages: 352

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Audible, B&N, iBooks (audiobook), Kobo (audiobook), TBD, Bookshop.org

 With 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 in the name of truth and country. This extraordinary and eye-opening account of the Holocaust invites us all to bear witness.

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…

Praise for The Volunteer (adult edition):

“This is a story that has long deserved a robust, faithful telling, and [Fairweather] has delivered it.” — Wall Street Journal

“An extraordinary story.” — The Times

* “A forceful narrative with unstoppable reading momentum, Fairweather has created an insightful biography of a covert war hero and an extraordinary contribution to the history of the Holocaust.” — Booklist, starred review

“Witold Pilecki is one of the great — perhaps the greatest — unsung heroes of the second world war… Jack Fairweather’s meticulous and insightful book is likely to be the definitive version of this extraordinary life.” — Economist

 

EXCERPT

Witold, Maria, Andrzej, and Zofia, c. 1935.

 

About Jack Fairweather:

Jack Fairweather is a former war reporter in Iraq and Afghanistan and the author of A War of Choice and The Good War. The adult edition that tells this story is titled The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero Who Infiltrated Auschwitz, which was named winner of the Costa Award and a #1 Sunday Times bestseller. Jack has served as the Daily Telegraph’s Baghdad bureau chief, and as a video journalist for the Washington Post in Afghanistan. His war coverage has won a British Press Award and an Overseas Press Club award citation.

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Giveaway Details:

3 winners will receive a finished copy of A REBEL IN AUSCHWITZ, US Only.

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Tour Schedule:

Week One:

10/11/2021 Fire and Ice Review
10/11/2021 BookHounds ya Excerpt
10/12/2021 Lexijava_Bookish/Lexijava Review
10/12/2021 @minnesota_mailer IG Post
10/13/2021 @curlygrannylovestoread Review
10/13/2021 Pick a good book Excerpt
10/14/2021 Jazzy Book Reviews Review
10/14/2021 Nerdophiles Review
10/15/2021 Books Are Magic Too Review
10/15/2021 Lifestyle of Me Review

 

Week Two:

10/18/2021 Locks, Hooks and Books Review
10/18/2021 Nikki’s Book reviews Review
10/19/2021 Books and Kats Excerpt
10/19/2021 Simply Daniel Radcliffe Review
10/20/2021 @coffeebooksandmascara Review
10/20/2021 Readingmurakami Review
10/21/2021 The Momma Spot Excerpt
10/21/2021 Coffee and Wander Book Reviews Review
10/22/2021 Popthebutterfly Reads Review
10/22/2021 @jypsylynn Review

 

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Comments

  1. Patricia Barraclough says

    October 10, 2021 at 11:54 pm

    This sounds like a story long overdue to be told.
    Fascinating. Why are we just now hearing about him?

  2. bn100 says

    October 11, 2021 at 7:47 am

    interesting

  3. Cathy French says

    October 11, 2021 at 8:30 am

    I have always been fascinated by the atrocities that happened there. I try to read and learn as much as I can about the subject. Sounds like a great read.

  4. Carl says

    October 11, 2021 at 8:39 am

    Sounds like a great read and an important bit of history for young people too. Thanks.

  5. Antoinette M says

    October 11, 2021 at 12:23 pm

    This sounds like an amazing book.

  6. Vicki Wurgler says

    October 11, 2021 at 3:15 pm

    I would love to win and read this book

  7. Teresa Warner says

    October 11, 2021 at 4:03 pm

    New author for me, sounds good!

  8. Bonnie says

    October 11, 2021 at 5:30 pm

    Sounds intriguing

  9. NANCY says

    October 13, 2021 at 8:10 pm

    Sounds great

  10. Leland Lee says

    October 24, 2021 at 12:47 pm

    Can’t wait to read it

  11. Xia Lee says

    October 24, 2021 at 1:06 pm

    Sounds like a great read

  12. Lronhoyabembe says

    October 25, 2021 at 11:32 am

    Fingers crossed! I’d love to read this

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