Costa prize: Jack Fairweather wins book of the year with The Volunteer
(The Guardian Books News)

Biography of Witold Pilecki, a Polish resistance fighter who infiltrated Auschwitz, hailed as extraordinaryFormer war reporter Jack Fairweather has won the Costa book of the year award for The Volunteer, his biography of a Polish resistance fighter who voluntarily entered Auschwitz in order to reveal its horrors to the world.Fairweather´s life of Witold Pilecki, a member of the Warsaw resistance who infiltrated the concentration camp and encouraged rebellion, was hailed as `a book that needs to be read` by the chair of judges, Sian Williams. Continue reading...