No Road Leading Back, 9780349136271
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Audacious escape from Nazi horror: a forgotten Holocaust story revealed.

No Road Leading Back

an improbable escape from the nazis – and the tangled way we tell the story of the holocaust

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    640 pages

  • Release Date

    10 September 2024

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Summary

No Road Leading Back: The Untold Story of the Ponar Escape

Ponar, Lithuania. 1944. Enslaved by the Nazis, Jewish men are forced to exhume and incinerate the remains of over 70,000 Jews murdered in the forest. Amidst this unimaginable horror, a group conceives a daring escape.

Under constant guard, they dig a tunnel with their bare hands. Twelve men break free in an act of bravery, desperation, and incredible ingenuity.

Based on firsthand accounts and meticulously gat…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780349136271
ISBN-10:0349136270
Author:Chris Heath
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Little, Brown
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:640
Release Date:10 September 2024
Weight:800g
Dimensions:234mm x 153mm x 22mm
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Chris Heath has been a contributing editor at GQ since 2003. He was previously contributing editor at Details Magazine and Rolling Stone. He has won the 2013 National Magazine Award for Reporting for the story ‘18 Tigers, 17 Lions, 8 Bears, 3 Cougars, 2 Wolves, 1 Baboon, 1 Macaque, and 1 Man Dead in Ohio’. His books include Pet Shop Boys, Literally and the 2004 number one UK bestseller Feel, about Robbie Williams. In recent years he has written about the aftermaths of the 2011 Japanese tsunami and of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans; Iraqi refugees in Syria; and a Colorado man traveling on repeated solo missions to kill Osama Bin Laden, among many other subjects. Currently based in London and New York, Chris grew up south of Birmingham.

About The Author

Chris Heath

Chris Heath has been a contributing editor at GQ since 2003. He was previously contributing editor at Details Magazine and Rolling Stone. He has won the 2013 National Magazine Award for Reporting for the story ‘18 Tigers, 17 Lions, 8 Bears, 3 Cougars, 2 Wolves, 1 Baboon, 1 Macaque, and 1 Man Dead in Ohio’. His books include Pet Shop Boys, Literally and the 2004 number one UK bestseller Feel, about Robbie Williams. In recent years he has written about the aftermaths of the 2011 Japanese tsunami and of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans; Iraqi refugees in Syria; and a Colorado man traveling on repeated solo missions to kill Osama Bin Laden, among many other subjects. Currently based in London and New York, Chris grew up south of Birmingham.

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