{"product_id":"9781862079878-secondhand-the-forger","title":"The Forger","description":"In wartime Berlin, Cioma Schonhaus discovered a way of turning his talent for graphic design to good use: he forged documents which helped save hundreds of Jewish lives. His first challenge involved painstakingly recreating each of the twelve long and twenty-four short feathers on the German Imperial Eagle so that a pass stood up to scrutiny by Nazi officials. Many more forged documents were to follow, as the 20-year-old Schonhaus attempted to stay one step ahead of the authorities, who had him on their wanted list. Schonhaus is breathtakingly bold - he gets himself arrested for wandering onto a military airfield and manages to talk his way out; he makes a complaint about the drunken behaviour of a policeman harassing Jewish diners in a restaurant; he goes cycling with a girlfriend in the countryside at a time when Jews were subject to curfew and banned from riding bicycles. On his final 1000-mile flight from Germany, he is forced to abandon his plan to jump on a goods train bound for Switzerland as too dangerous, and is left with the option of swimming across the Bodensee, or pedalling all the way . As those around him are one by one deported to concentration camps, his is an astonishing story of wartime survival.","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50918849741019,"sku":"9781862079878-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/252c54ee-c61b-40f2-9b62-3f057685fff0.jpg?v=1792774728","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9781862079878-secondhand-the-forger","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}