Author:
Kershaw, Alex.
Imprint:Cambridge, Mass. : Da Capo Press, c2010.
Descriptionx, 294 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Note:The final solution -- Wannsee -- On the run -- Mauthausen -- The last refuge -- Darkness at noon -- Escape from Auschwitz -- The cruelest summer -- The Swedish Pimpernel -- The Majestic Hotel -- Operation Panzerfaust -- Red Danube -- The arrow cross -- The road to Hegyeshalom -- Dinner with Eichmann -- December 1944 -- The inferno -- The Cold War -- Liberation -- The fall -- Lost hero -- Brave new worlds -- Going after the "master" -- The Wallenberg mystery -- The last survivors.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-277) and index.
Note:Relates how Swedish envoy Raoul Wallenberg out-dueled Nazi SS Colonel Adolph Eichmann and risked his life countless times to save more than 100,000 Hungarian Jews from Nazi death camps.
