Publisher Description
Hailed as “a master storyteller” (Booklist), Alex Kershaw routinely climbs best-seller lists with his narrative histories. In the waning months of World War II, SS Colonel Adolf Eichmann sent over half a million Hungarians to their deaths at Auschwitz. But one Jewish ghetto remained, and only one man–a Swedish diplomat named Raoul Wallenberg-could stop Eichmann.
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“This book sets up two archrivals–the heroic Raoul Wallenberg and his nemesis, Final Solution master Adolph Eichmann, intertwined with the stories of several Jewish families in World War II Hungary and especially Budapest, then following them as much as possible after the war. Kershaw gives a little more information about the Wallenberg mystery than I’ve read in other sources. Overall this is a fine book on an aspect of World War II and Holocaust history,one of the better-written entries at this time when so little new or better-explained information is being published on this exhaustively investigated subject. Recommended as a good integration of information about Wallenberg, Eichmann, and the situation in Budapest during the last years of the war, giving that synergisitic whole a better treatment than the sum of its parts (such as biographies of Wallenberg or Eichmann alone).”
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Lisa (4 out of 5 stars)
