The second novel in the record-breaking, million-copy bestselling Thursday Murder Club series by Richard Osman.
ï ½ The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitzï ½ is the extraordinary true story of a British Soldier who marched willingly into Buna-Monowitz, the concentration camp known as Auschwitz III. Denis Avey was being held in a POW Labour Camp near Auschwitz III. He has heard of the brutality meted out the prisoners there & he was determined to witness what he could. He hatched a plan to swap places with a Jewish inmate & smuggles himself into the camp. He spent the night there on two occasions & experienced at first-hand the cruelty of a place where slave workers had been sentenced to death through labour. Astonishingly, he survived.