Hunting Eichmann
Chasing down the world's most notorious Nazi
$43.28
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
30 September 2010
Summary
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 indic…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781849162340 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1849162344 |
| Author: | Neal Bascomb |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | Quercus Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 30 September 2010 |
| Weight: | 330g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 28mm |
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‘A riveting and passionate account of one of history’s most fascinating - and morally significant - secret operations’ Michael Oren. * Michael Oren *‘There’s no greater satisfaction than seeing someone guilty of great evil being brought to justice, and few people in history have been guilty of more than Adolf Eichmann. Neal Bascomb tells the story of his capture with great verve and a novelist’s eye for suspense.’ Adam Hochschild. * Adam Hochschild *‘It’s an extraordinary gripping and disturbing read’ Mail on Sunday. * Mail on Sunday *
About The Author
Neal Bascomb
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.
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