In 1942 a small group of Jewish resistance fighters established a community deep in the forests of western Belorussia, offering protection to all Jewish fugitives who could find their way to them. Within 2 years they numbered more than 1200 - men and women, old and young; the largest armed rescue operation of Jews by Jews in the war, perhaps in any war ever. Their leader, the charismatic Tuvia Bielski, told hi story to author Nechama Tec two weeks before he died in 1987. This is the breathtaking true account of the Bielski Partisans.