September 1940. With calm deliberation, Polish Army officer Witold Pilecki walked into a Nazi German street roundup in Warsaw…and became Auschwitz Prisoner No. 4859. Pilecki had volunteered for a secret mission: to smuggle out intelligence about this new German concentration camp, and build a resistance organization among prisoners. He barely survived nearly three years of starvation, disease and brutality, but Pilecki accomplished his mission before escaping in 1943. His clandestine intelligence from Auschwitz, received by the Allies in 1941, was among the earliest. The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery is Pilecki's dramatic eyewitness report, written in 1945 for his Polish Army superiors. This seminal primary source is published in English for the first time. The New York Times, Editor's Choice: "A historical document of the greatest importance." The New Republic: "Deserves to be read alongside the accounts of Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel." Rabbi Schudrich, Chief Rabbi of Poland: "Essential reading for anyone interested in the Holocaust." Publishers Weekly: "Remarkable revelations." Ebook includes Bonus Videos and Praise.