No Road Leading Back
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- Chris Heath
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No Road Leading Back
- ISBN #9780349136271
- Chris Heath
- Paperback
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This shattering and inspiring account of prisoners who dug their way out of torture and imprisonment by the Nazis is both a stunning escape narrative and an object lesson in how we remember and continually forget the realities of the Holocaust. No Road Leading Back is the remarkable story of a dozen prisoners who escaped from the pits where more than 70,000 Jews were shot in the Lithuanian forest after the Nazi invasion of Eastern Europe in 1941. Anxious to hide the incriminating evidence of the murders, the S.S. enslaved a group of Jews to exhume every one of the bodies and incinerate them all in a months-long labour - an episode whose specifics are staggering and disturbing, even within the context of the Holocaust. Trapped in almost unimaginable horror, some of the men who were part of this 'burning brigade' put together an audacious escape plan. They dug a tunnel with their bare hands and spoons despite being guarded day and night - an act not just of great bravery and desperation but of extraordinary ingenuity. Based on first-person accounts of the escapees and on every scrap of evidence that has been documented, repressed or amplified since, this book resurrects the lives of these men and their acts of witness, as well as providing a complex, urgent analysis of why their story has rarely been told, and never accurately. Heath explores the cultural use and misuse of Holocaust testimony and the need for us to face it - and all uncomfortable historical truths - with honesty and accuracy.
- Format: Paperback / softback
- Publication Date: 10/09/2024
- Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
- Illustrations: 81 integrated b&w pictures
- Country of Origin: United Kingdom
- Pages: 640
- Dimensions (mm): 232x152x38mm
- Weight: 800g
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This shattering and inspiring account of prisoners who dug their way out of torture and imprisonment by the Nazis is both a stunning escape narrative and an object lesson in how we remember and continually forget the realities of the Holocaust. No Road Leading Back is the remarkable story of a dozen prisoners who escaped from the pits where more than 70,000 Jews were shot in the Lithuanian forest after the Nazi invasion of Eastern Europe in 1941. Anxious to hide the incriminating evidence of the murders, the S.S. enslaved a group of Jews to exhume every one of the bodies and incinerate them all in a months-long labour - an episode whose specifics are staggering and disturbing, even within the context of the Holocaust. Trapped in almost unimaginable horror, some of the men who were part of this 'burning brigade' put together an audacious escape plan. They dug a tunnel with their bare hands and spoons despite being guarded day and night - an act not just of great bravery and desperation but of extraordinary ingenuity. Based on first-person accounts of the escapees and on every scrap of evidence that has been documented, repressed or amplified since, this book resurrects the lives of these men and their acts of witness, as well as providing a complex, urgent analysis of why their story has rarely been told, and never accurately. Heath explores the cultural use and misuse of Holocaust testimony and the need for us to face it - and all uncomfortable historical truths - with honesty and accuracy.
- Format: Paperback / softback
- Publication Date: 10/09/2024
- Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
- Illustrations: 81 integrated b&w pictures
- Country of Origin: United Kingdom
- Pages: 640
- Dimensions (mm): 232x152x38mm
- Weight: 800g
- Delivery & Returns