Jack Fairweather Books In Order

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Jack Fairweather is a published British author and journalist.

Throughout the course of his career, Jack has worked in journalism extensively. He has served as a correspondent for the Daily Telegraph and the Washington Post (where he worked as a video journalist in Afghanistan). At the Daily Telegraph, Fairweather was the Baghdad and Persian Gulf bureau chief of British troops. The reporting that he conducted during the Iraq War ended up getting him the top press award in Britain.

He is a bestselling author, known for books such as The Volunteer, an account of an officer of the Polish underground who volunteered to report back on Nazi crimes conducted in Auschwitz. The book won him a Costa Prize, has been translated into over two dozen languages, and has become the foundation for a large exhibition held in Berlin.

The war coverage that Jack has done has also earned him an Overseas Press Club award citation. Today, the author chooses to split his time between residences, spending equal portions of it shuttling between Wales and Vermont.

The Good War: Why We Couldn’t Win the War or the Peace in Afghanistan is a 2014 book written by Jack Fairweather. In the early days of the war, the American-led effort seemed to going well. It was deemed a ‘good war’, especially when compared to how Iraq turned out. The exchange has since been one of the longest and most expensive wars to take place in the history of the United States, and much of it is detailed in this book.

This is the real story of how what was initially seen as such a ‘good war’ ended up turning and going bad. It could potentially be a tragedy that defines the twenty-first century. But as Jack Fairweather, author of the book and a war correspondent, explains to the reader in great detail, it may be able to give people to hope for an outcome that is grounded in the reality of those in Afghanistan, as opposed to our own.

Inside this book, the author gives the reader a fully narrated history of how this war in Afghanistan was conducted, from its start into being following the events of 9/11 to a drawdown in 2014. Fairweather takes advantage of hundreds of different interviews to provide context and detail, drawing as well from archives that previously went unpublished and months of personal reporting done in Afghanistan.

He looks into the hubris and the righteous intentions that helped to make the American strategy in Afghanistan not reach its greatest potential, and pushes back against the long-accepted idea that the war could have been won, if only there were more cash and troops provided.

Jack puts forth the idea that by accepting the limitations presented by Afghanistan, whether the Taliban’s presence, the presence of the opium trade, or the way that the country was not cut out for rapid development done Western-style, would be a way to help America to be able to bring back peace to a land that has been torn apart.

The book is a lesson on the dangers of nation building as well as a reminder that American power does have its limits. The Good War takes readers to a variety of places, from the situation room in the white House to American military outposts to dens full of insurgents to palaces occupied by warlords.

All of this is to show and explain how the United States and its various allies may have helped to save the Afghan campaign and how other good wars in the future will have to be carefully considered. An intelligent book that will fill readers in more on a specific point and time in history and a great gift for nonfiction readers, this is an important story that you will not want to miss.

The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz is a 2019 book by Jack Fairweather. If you like nonfiction or just want to find out more about a real event from history, this is the book for you.

This is the story of one of the biggest heroes to come out of World War II. In 1940 during the summer, following the Nazis occupying Poland, Witold Pilecki was an underground operative. He took on a mission whose goal was to get to the bottom of the fate of thousands of people who were being shuttled into a new concentration camp that was situated on the Reich’s border.

Witold’s assignment was to report back on Nazi crimes, all while putting together a secret army so that an uprising could be staged. The name of the detention center was one that would come to be well-known among those who know history: Auschwitz.

After he got to the camp, Witold began to find out more about the strange designs of the Nazis. Over the course of the next two and some years, Witold was able to bring together and build an underground army. They were able to get the evidence of the crimes the Nazis had committed to the West. The actions of the Nazis would result in the mass murder of many Jews– over a million of them, all told. The reports that Witold brought back from the camp would end up having an effect on the way that the Allies responded to the Holocaust.

Despite this, the story of this man stayed quiet and was nearly forgotten over the decades. This is the first time in quite some time that the impressive journey of this man was documented. Fairweather pulls from exclusive family papers and files that have been recently declassified, in addition to unpublished accounts from the fighters in the camp that detail how this one man was able to go on to save countless lives.

Unique and completely engaging, this is one story of a man that history nearly forgot. Resistance and heroic efforts come together in the story of how one person tried to change the course of history. Read it to hear about every detail!