The Forgers

Among the many remarkable aspects of The Forgers is the fact that the prime movers were Poles, many of whom were notorious for antisemitism ... [Moorhouse] does well to highlight that some Poles displayed admirable compassion.

Max Hastings, Sunday Times

Roger Moorhouse, the leading historian on Poland's war, publishes a full account of Lados's efforts in an excellent book on the passport ring

Daniel Finkelstein, The Times

Absorbing... It is a story that seems not to have been told much outside the academic literature, and it is deeply researched and well reported here

Spectator

In this fascinating book, Roger Moorhouse shines a light on extraordinary, audacious and little-known rescue operation

Mail on Sunday

There is much fascinating research in Moorhouse’s book

Times Literary Supplement

Many inspiring stories have emerged from the horror of the Holocaust. This is one of them. Moorhouse's account of the remarkable humanitarians who gave life to thousands of Jews by providing them with forged South American passports, is as gripping as it is moving

Julia Boyd, author of Travellers in the Third Reich

Every now and again a new story emerges about the Holocaust despite the wealth of literature already available. Roger Moorhouse is to be congratulated for finding the remarkable account of thousands of Jews rescued by the efforts of a determined circle of Polish helpers. Original and thought-provoking, the history of the Lados circle challenges the argument that there was no way for the Allies to rescue Jews from Hitler's Europe. With sufficient will and ingenuity, it was possible, against all the odds, to rescue a fraction of those otherwise doomed to die

Richard Overy, author of Blood and Ruins

This is a powerful story about a group of brave individuals who found a unique way of saving Jewish lives from the Nazis. Moorhouse's original research is characteristically scholarly, his insights illuminating and his narrative gripping. An inspiring read and an important addition to the history of the Holocaust

Jonathan Dimbleby, author of Barbarossa

A powerful and painful book. The Forgers offers new details of the brave efforts of the Polish Underground to rescue Jews. It is heartbreaking when Moorhouse details the bureaucracy and bad intentions of the international community who knowingly turned their backs on these rescue operations. This is an intimate portrait of the cycles of hope and despair that the sadistic ruses and bestial atrocities of the Nazis imposed on concentration camp prisoners

Rosemary Sullivan, author of The Betrayal of Anne Frank