Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated AuschwitzThis is untold story of one of the greatest heroes of the Second World War. In the Summer of 1940, after the Nazi occupation of Poland, an underground operative called Witold Pilecki accepted a mission to uncover the fate of thousands of people being interred at a new concentration camp on the border of the Reich. His mission was to report on Nazi crimes and raise a secret army to stage an uprising. The name of the detention centre Auschwitz. It was

how you think and how you choose to face the world

as Lynn Barber put it

It wasn't a coincidence that Kasparov became the symbol of man's fight against the machines

It is a compilation of 100 stories of famous and not-so-famous men from the past to the present day

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David Sedaris moved from New York to Paris where he attempted to learn French

Celebrated novelist Daphne Du Maurier and her sisters

Ranulph Fiennes has travelled to the most dangerous places on earth

poverty-stricken Romania

the farm was her very own dangerous adventure playground

These real-life historical diaries explore Anne's relationships at home with her family

she escaped to West Germany with nothing more than a small satchel and the clothes on her back