The Doctor of Rozwadów: The Typhus Deception

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One doctor. One impossible deception. Thousands of lives.

Occupied Poland, 1942.

As Nazi rule tightens its grip on the district of Rozwadów, Dr Eugeniusz Łazowski faces an impossible choice. To remain passive is to watch families disappear into forced labour camps and worse. To resist openly is to invite execution.

Together with fellow physician Dr Stanisław Matulewicz, he devises an audacious plan unlike any other in the history of the Second World War. Using science, courage and the unwavering loyalty of an entire community, they create the illusion of a devastating typhus epidemic—one so convincing that the German authorities are forced to quarantine an entire district.

Behind the closed doors of a modest surgery in Rynek 23, every patient, every laboratory test and every secret carried through the forests becomes part of a fragile deception on which thousands of lives depend.

Inspired by true events, The Doctor of Rozwadów: The Typhus Deception is a powerful novel of quiet courage, moral conviction and the extraordinary resistance of ordinary people. It is a story of medicine used not to take life, but to preserve it; of a town that chose compassion over fear; and of one doctor whose greatest weapon was the trust his patients placed in him.

Perfect for readers who enjoy Robert Harris, Edward Rutherfurd, Kate Quinn, Anthony Doerr and meticulously researched historical fiction inspired by real events.