Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to the Webby-nominated podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.

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Check them out at Himalaya.com or in the app store. I'm excited to be here today with Jack

Fairweather, who is a former war reporter. He has covered Iraq, Afghanistan, and more. He is the author

of A War of Choice and the Good War. His war coverage for the Daily Telegraph in the Washington Post

earned him a British press award and an overseas press club citation. His most recent book is

The Volunteer, One Man, an Underground Army and the Secret Mission to Destroy Auschwitz.

He's a graduate of Oxford University and currently lives in Vermont with his wife and three

daughters. Welcome to Jack. Hi, Zerbitt. Hi. Thanks for coming on moms. Don't have time to read books.

Thanks for having me. I'm particularly excited because this is definitely a long book and so interesting.

So I'm very excited to get the inside scoop from you before, you know, everyone delves into it themselves.

I'm thrilled to share. I'm thrilled to share.

Although I did realize that about a quarter of the book is footnotes at the end.

So it's misleading how thick it is.

Yes, indeed. It's a whole extra book inside. So can you please tell listeners what the

volunteer is about and what inspired you to write it? So the volunteer is this extraordinary story

about a Polish underground operative who in 1940 took on a mission

to infiltrate Auschwitz, raise a resistant cell inside the camp, and start reporting on Nazi

crimes. And incredibly, he succeeded in doing those things, sending out messages that reached the allies

that were the first to inform the world about what was happening in Auschwitz.

And perhaps even more amazing is the fact that you haven't, you know, dear listener,

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