{"product_id":"the-ticket-collector-from-belarus-an-extraordinary-true-story-of-britains-only-war-crimes-trial-9781398503274","title":"The Ticket Collector from Belarus: An Extraordinary True Story of Britain's Only War Crimes Trial","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrilliantly gripping Sunday Times; Compelling Daily Mail; Heart-rending Sunday Telegraph; Excellent The Times; Engrossing Independent  The UKs only war crimes trial took place in 1999 and had its origins in the horrors of the Holocaust  but only now in The Ticket Collector from Belarus can the full story be told.  The Ticket Collector from Belarus tells the remarkable story of two interwoven journeys. Ben-Zion Blustein and Andrei Sawoniuk were childhood friends in 1930s Domachevo  a holiday and health resort in what is now Belarus. During the events that followed the Nazi invasion in 1941  they became the bitterest of enemies. After the war  Ben-Zion made his way to Israel  and Andrusha the bastard to England  where he found work as a British Rail ticket collector in London.  They next confronted each other in the Old Bailey  over half a century later  where one was the principal prosecution witness  and the other charged with a fraction of the number of murders he was alleged to have committed. There was no physical evidence  just one mans word against another  leaving the jury with a series of agonising dilemmas: Could any witness statement be trusted so long after the event? Was Andrusha a brutal killer  a hapless pawn or a scapegoat? And were his furious protests a sign of guilt or the justified anger of an innocent old man?  Mike Anderson was gripped by the story  and so began his quest to find the truth about this astonishing case and the people at its heart. As he discovered  it was even more remarkable than he could ever have imagined.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652278378549,"sku":"ByrdShop_1398503274","price":77.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781398503274.jpg?v=1781850546","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-ticket-collector-from-belarus-an-extraordinary-true-story-of-britains-only-war-crimes-trial-9781398503274","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}