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Hunting Eichmann: Chasing down the world´s most notorious Nazi
Neal Bascomb
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Description for Hunting Eichmann: Chasing down the world´s most notorious Nazi
Paperback. The thrilling story of the most dramatic and significant of all Nazi man-hunts. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, map, ports. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; BGH; HBTZ1; JPFQ; JWXK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 133 x 28. Weight in Grams: 272.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
284g
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849162340
SKU
V9781849162340
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About 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.
Reviews for Hunting Eichmann: Chasing down the world´s most notorious Nazi
'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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more