The Einstein Vendetta, 9780241658482
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Nazi-occupied Florence, a family murdered, and the Einstein vendetta untold.
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The Einstein Vendetta

hitler, mussolini, and a true story of murder

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  • Hardcover

    384 pages

  • Release Date

    17 April 2025

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The Einstein Vendetta: A True Story of Murder, War, and Injustice

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Hanns and Rudolf - a gripping true story of unsolved murder, war, and injustice in Nazi-occupied Florence

I absolutely devoured *The Einstein Vendetta*… Remarkable. Totally compellingEdmund de Waal

‘Can’t express how moved I am. An absolute triumph. So much more …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241658482
ISBN-10:0241658489
Author:Thomas Harding
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Michael Joseph Ltd
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:384
Release Date:17 April 2025
Weight:632g
Dimensions:240mm x 159mm x 38mm
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Praise for The Einstein Vendetta * - *What’s in a name? Well, if it’s Einstein, quite a lot. Thomas Harding has carved out a significant reputation as a prize-winning writer, and The Einstein Vendetta makes for deeply shocking reading. This is a gripping, finely researched, superbly written and deeply important book – Anna Sebba * Spectator *I absolutely devoured The Einstein Vendetta. It is so moving and the way in which Harding navigates the unresolved nature of the story is quite remarkable. Totally compelling * Edmund de Waal *An absolute triumph. Beautifully judged and infused with humanity and empathy – Allan LittleNazi brutality, and the resulting family pain and grief, is vividly recorded. The Einstein Vendetta shines a light on these forgotten lives and crimes and on the limits of post-war attempts to secure justice. Harding evokes time and place beautifully, while paying forensic attention to detail. The result is a slow burn of cliff-hangers to keep the pages turning * Spectator *Scrupulously researched * Herald *The Einstein Vendetta will tug at your heartstrings and prompt righteous outrage. Harding captures beautifully the general atmosphere of wartime Tuscany, the fear the family must have felt in their last hours and the inhuman toll the executions took. Harding is excellent on the investigations of the case – the details of this ‘slow, hard work. Real shoe-leather work’ could in other hands be dry and dusty, but Harding makes them riveting: archival files poured over in search of vital clues, witnesses undone by failing memory, and always the hope that some small cosmic order will be restored by finding the man who ordered the shootings * Telegraph *Thomas Harding has carved out a niche unravelling unexplained events. The Einstein Vendetta shows that, although more than eighty years have passed since the Wehrmacht and the SS retreated from Tuscany, there is still substantial appetite to nail down the crimes they committed * Caroline Moorhead, Literary Review *Praise for Thomas Harding * - *With the narrative drive of a great novelist and the meticulous research of a great historian, Harding has crafted a moving, instructive and important book – Dan Brotzel * The Herald *

About The Author

Thomas Harding

Thomas Harding is a bestselling author whose books have been translated into more than 20 languages. He has written for the Sunday Times, the Washington Post and the Guardian, amongst other publications.

He is the bestselling author of Hanns and Rudolf, which won the JQ-Wingate Prize for Non-Fiction, The House by the Lake, which was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award, Blood on the Page, which won the Crime Writers’ Association ‘Golden Dagger Award for Non-Fiction’, and most recently The Maverick, which was selected by the New York Times as a Critic’s Pick for 2023.

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