Hunting Eichmann

Zusatztext 'It's an extraordinary gripping and disturbing read' Mail on Sunday. Informationen zum Autor Neal Bascomb is the author of Higher (the story of the building of New York) and The Perfect Mile. His most recent book, Red Mutiny: The True Story of the Battleship Potemkin Mutiny, received outstanding reviews on its publication in 2007. Klappentext Adolf Eichmann was the operational manager of the genocide that dispatched six million European Jews to the gas chambers. Escaping US custody in 1946, he hid in various locations in Germany before absconding in 1950 via a ''ratline'' escape route to Argentina, where he lived, undisturbed, for the next decade. On 11 May 1960 he was captured in an operation of breathtaking skill and daring by a team of Mossad agents in a Buenos Aires suburb. Smuggled out of Argentina to Israel, Eichmann was indicted there on charges of crimes against humanity, and hanged on 1 June 1962. Part history, part detective story, part international thriller, Hunting Eichmann brings the story of the fifteen-year search for Eichmann more thrillingly, more accurately, more completely to life than ever before. Superbly researched and relentlessly paced, Hunting Eichmann brings us closer to understanding the architect of the Holocaust than ever before - a man whose terrifying ordinariness came to embody the ''banality of evil''. Zusammenfassung The thrilling story of the most dramatic and significant of all Nazi man-hunts.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Neal Bascomb, Bascomb Neal
• Editore: Quercus Publishing
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 29.07.2010
• EAN: 9781849162340
• ISBN: 978-1-84916-234-0
• Pagine: 416
• Dimensioni: 130 mm x 197 mm x 26 mm
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Biografie, autobiografie; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, HISTORY / Military / World War II, HISTORY / Holocaust, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Second World War, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), War Crimes, Far-right political ideologies and movements, c 1940 to c 1949, Biography: historical, political and military, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater