No Road Leading Back: An Improbable Escape from the Nazis by Chris Heath #literature in the first of his

in the first of his trilogy of exquisite memoirs

Olivia receives a letter from an uncle she's never met

Or will they both go up in flames

Mary will go on to live through the Coronation and the World Cup final

revolutionary violence and the transformation of Germany

No Road Leading Back: An Improbable Escape from the Nazis by Chris Heath #literature in the first of his'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