What Is the Greatest Act of Courage?
Roger Moorhouse, author, The Devils’ Alliance: Hitler’s Pact With Stalin, 1939–1941
It is hard to top the incredible bravery of Witold Pilecki, a Polish soldier who in 1940 volunteered to join a German roundup so that he could report on what was going on inside a newly established concentration camp. That camp was Auschwitz.
Heath Hardage Lee, author, The League of Wives
On May was forced by his North Vietnamese captors to film a propaganda video. He Denton knew he risked beatings and other severe reprisals, but he still chose to “blow it wide open.”
