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The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz: The Extraordinary True Story by Rob Broomby, Denis Avey (Hardcover, 2011)
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'This is a most important book, and a timely reminder of the dangers that face any society once intolerance and racism take hold.' (Sir Martin Gilbert ) 'Denis is a hero in time of terror, a man of limitless moral and physical courage.' (Henry Kamm, New York Times correspondent and Pulitzer Prize winner ) 'His descriptions are terrifyingly vivid. His bravery in saving the life of a Jewish prisoner is inspiring'. (News of the World ) --. About the Author Denis Avey was born in Essex in 1919. He fought in the desert during the Second World War and was captured and held as a Prisoner of War in a camp near Auschwitz III. In 2010 he received a British Hero of the Holocaust award. Denis died in 2015.
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THE MAN WHO BROKE INTO AUSCHWITZ is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into the notorious concentration camp. In the summer of 1944, Denis Avey was being held in a British POW labour camp, E715, near the site of Auschwitz III. He had heard of the brutality meted out to the prisoners there and he was determined to witness what he could. He hatched a plan to swap places with a Jewish inmate and smuggled himself into his sector of the camp. He spent the night there on two occasions and experienced first-hand the cruelty of a place where slave workers, had been sentenced to death through labour. Astonishingly, he survived to witness the aftermath of the Death March where thousands of prisoners were murdered by the Nazis as the Soviet Army advanced. After his own long trek right across central Europe he was repatriated to Britain where no one took his story seriously. For decades he couldn t bring himself to revisit the past that haunted his dreams. Now Denis Avey feels able to tell the full story a tale as gripping as it is moving which offers us a unique insight into the mind of an ordinary man whose moral and physical courage are almost beyond belief.Product Identifiers
PublisherHodder & Stoughton
ISBN-139781444714166
eBay Product ID (ePID)178357003
Product Key Features
Number of Pages272 Pages
Publication NameThe Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz: the Extraordinary True Story
LanguageEnglish
SubjectHistory
Publication Year2011
TypeTextbook
AuthorRob Broomby, Denis Avey
Subject AreaBiographies & True Stories
SeriesExtraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height240 mm
Item Weight511 g
Item Width163 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorDenis Avey, Rob Broomby
TopicMemorials
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