The Secret Scrapbook

In 1988, a retired stockbroker named Nicholas Winton sat quietly in the studio audience of the BBC program That's Life! , hosted by Esther Rantzen. He had no idea why his wife had arranged for him to be there. What Winton had never told anyone — not friends, not colleagues, not even his own family — was that in the winter of 1938-1939, he had organized the rescue of 669 children, most of them Jewish, from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.…