{"product_id":"the-forgers-roger-moorhouse","title":"The Forgers (Roger Moorhouse)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**A \u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/i\u003e Best History Book 2023 and\u003ci\u003e Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year**\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe inspirational story of the ordinary people who forged the documents that saved thousands of Jewish lives in World War Two.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Powerful ... gripping ... inspiring'\u003c\/b\u003e JONATHAN 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 The Forgers 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, author of \u003ci\u003eTravellers in the Third Reich\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'An astonishing book\u003c\/b\u003e' KATJA HOYER, author of \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Wall\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eRoger Moorhouse\u003c\/b\u003e is a historian and author specialising in modern German history. He is the co-author, with Norman Davies, of \u003ci\u003eMicrocosm: Portrait of a Central European City\u003c\/i\u003e, and the author of \u003ci\u003eKilling Hitler: The Third Reich and the Plots Against the Fuhrer \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Devil's Alliance: Hitler's Pact with Stalin.\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format paperback, Englisch, 288 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63612303311197,"sku":"K097532821","price":11.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/241717-9753282100001A.jpg?v=1771991143","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-forgers-roger-moorhouse","provider":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}