{"product_id":"no-road-leading-back-an-improbable-escape-from-the-nazis-and-the-tangled-way-we-tell-the-story-of-the-holocaust","title":"No Road Leading Back","description":"\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Utterly absorbing in its powerfully detailed horror and inspiring redemption—a must-read in Holocaust studies.\" Kirkus Starred Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/book-reviews\/chris-heath\/no-road-leading-back\/\" title=\"Starred Kirkus Review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eClick here to read the full Starred Kirkus review @ www.kirkusreviews.com\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A stunning book, a powerful investigation, utterly compelling,' James Holland,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Daily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e, Five stars\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePonar, 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBased on first-person accounts of the escapees and on every scrap of evidence that has been documented, repressed or amplified since, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNo Road Leading Back\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistory and Archaeology\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChris Heath\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e640 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eH: 232mm W: 152mm Spine: 38mm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWeight: 800 grams\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44081812144278,"sku":"9780349136271","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0587\/4978\/0118\/files\/jacket---2024-09-12T161740-640.jpg?v=1726114758","url":"https:\/\/www.tawabooksandpost.co.nz\/products\/no-road-leading-back-an-improbable-escape-from-the-nazis-and-the-tangled-way-we-tell-the-story-of-the-holocaust","provider":"Tawa Books \u0026 Post","version":"1.0","type":"link"}