{"product_id":"the-forgers-the-forgotten-story-of-the-holocaust-s-most-audacious-rescue-operation-9781847926777","title":"The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**A \u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/i\u003e Best History Book 2023 and \u003ci\u003eSpectator\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe inspirational story of the ordinary people who forged the documents that saved thousands of Jewish lives in World War Two.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Powerful ... gripping ... inspiring' \u003c\/b\u003eJONATHAN DIMBLEBY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBetween 1940 and 1943, a small group of Polish diplomats and Jewish activists in Switzerland engaged in a wholly remarkable - and until now, almost completely unknown - humanitarian operation. Under the leadership of the Polish Ambassador, Aleksander Lados, they undertook a systematic programme of forging identity documents for Latin American countries, which were then smuggled into German-occupied Europe to save the lives of thousands of Jews facing extermination in the Holocaust.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Lados operation was one of the largest rescue missions of the entire war, and \u003ci\u003eThe Forgers\u003c\/i\u003e tells this extraordinary story for the first time. We follow the desperate bids of Jews to obtain these life-saving documents, and their painful uncertainty over whether they will be granted protection from the Nazis' murderous fury. And we witness the quiet heroism of those who decided to act in an attempt to save thousands of lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Fascinating' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Remarkable' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'As gripping as it is moving' \u003c\/b\u003eJULIA BOYD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'An astonishing book' \u003c\/b\u003eKATJA HOYER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Forgers \u003c\/i\u003eis a well-constructed and agreeably concise book with \u003cb\u003ea clear narrative drive and fascinating detail \u003c\/b\u003e... Moorhouse's most laudable achievement is the light he shines on Lados and his team, who saved at least 2,000 Jews from extermination. Until now, they have not received the recognition they deserve * Gerard de Groot, The Times *\u003cbr\u003eAmong the many \u003cb\u003eremarkable\u003c\/b\u003e aspects of \u003ci\u003eThe Forgers \u003c\/i\u003eis the fact that the prime movers were Poles, many of whom were notorious for antisemitism ... [Moorhouse] does well to highlight that some Poles displayed admirable compassion. * Max Hastings, Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003eRoger Moorhouse, the\u003cb\u003e leading historian on Poland's war\u003c\/b\u003e, publishes a full account of Lados's efforts in an \u003cb\u003eexcellent book \u003c\/b\u003eon the passport ring * Daniel Finkelstein, The Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbsorbing\u003c\/b\u003e... It is a story that seems not to have been told much outside the academic literature, and it is \u003cb\u003edeeply researched and well reported\u003c\/b\u003e here * Spectator *\u003cbr\u003eIn this \u003cb\u003efascinating\u003c\/b\u003e book, Roger Moorhouse shines a light on \u003cb\u003eextraordinary\u003c\/b\u003e, audacious and little-known rescue operation * Mail on Sunday *","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49413681348951,"sku":"9781847926777","price":15.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-forgers-the-forgotten-story-of-the-holocaust-s-most-audacious-rescue-operation-9781847926777","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}