No Road Leading Back: An Improbable Escape from the Nazis – and the Tangled Way We Tell the Story of the...

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Chris Heath

No Road Leading Back

An Improbable Escape from the Nazis – and the Tangled Way We Tell the Story of the Holocaust...

Chris Heath

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Little, Brown
10 December 2024

British & Irish history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; The Holocaust

'A stunning book, a powerful investigation, utterly compelling,' James Holland, The Daily Telegraph, Five stars

Ponar, Lithuania. 1944. The Nazis have enslaved Jewish men to exhume and incinerate the bodies of more than 70,000 Jews previously shot to death in the forest. Trapped in almost unimaginable horror, a group develop an audacious escape plan. Despite being guarded day and night, they dig a tunnel with their bare hands. Twelve men escape - an act of great bravery and desperation as well as extraordinary imagination.

Based on first-person accounts of the escapees and on every scrap of evidence that has been documented, repressed or amplified since, No Road Leading Back resurrects the lives of the twelve and their acts of witness, as well as providing an urgent analysis of why their story has rarely been told - and never accurately. Author Chris Heath explores the cultural use and misuse of Holocaust testimony and the need for us to face uncomfortable historical truths with honesty and accuracy.

This shattering and inspiring true story 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 particulars of the Holocaust.

By: Chris Heath
Imprint: Little, Brown
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 238mm, Width: 158mm, Spine: 48mm
Weight: 940g
ISBN: 9780349136288
ISBN 10: 0349136289
Pages: 640
Publication Date: 10 December 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

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.

Reviews for No Road Leading Back: An Improbable Escape from the Nazis – and the Tangled Way We Tell the Story of the Holocaust

This is one of the best books written about The Shoah by Bullets. Clearly written, superbly researched, it's a fascinating reminder of an unjustly neglected story about The Holocaust * David Herman *