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BOOK REVIEW Heroism from a crushed nation*

By Editorial Team / February 9, 2019




A CAPTAIN’S PORTRAIT: Witold Pilecki, Martyr for Truth
by Adam J. Koch
Freedom Publishing Books, Scoresby Hardcover: 454 pages Price: AUD$44.95
Reviewed by Dr Keith Suter
 
Witold Pilecki was one of the most remarkable Polish people of World War II. In 1940, with Poland overrun by Germans, the Catholic Pilecki volunteered to go into Auschwitz concentration camp to help organise the resistance and to report on what was happening.
He escap…

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