Michael Fleming is a graduate of the University of London and the University of Oxford. He completed his doctoral research at the University of Oxford, including a year affiliated to the University of Warsaw. He has since taught at Jesus College and Pembroke College, Oxford, and at the Academy of Humanities and Economics, Łódź. He has also been a visiting researcher at the Pułtusk School of Humanities and at the Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. He is currently a professor at the Polish University Abroad, London, and conference secretary to the Institute for Polish Jewish Studies. In 2011, he was awarded the Aquila Polonica Prize. Fleming is the author of Communism, Nationalism and Ethnicity in Poland, 1944-1950 (2010) and many articles examining twentieth-century history.

• Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Censorship, self-censorship and the discursive environment; 3. The Polish government in exile in London; 4. Intelligence about Auschwitz: November 1940–February 1943; 5. British suppression of news of Auschwitz: March 1943–June/July 1944; 6. Reassessing the significance of the Vrba/Wetzler report; 7. Conclusion; Appendix 1. Information about Auschwitz to reach the West, November 1942–June 1944; Appendix 2. Archives and historians; Bibliography; Index.

'Michael Fleming has made a major contribution to the historiography of the Holocaust, and in the process has demonstrated formidable skill as a scholar as well as admirable moral courage … His book is undoubtedly one of the most important in the study of the Holocaust in the last twenty years.' Alexander J. Groth, Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs