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Hunting Eichmann

How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World's Most Notorious Nazi

by Neal Bascomb
Paul Hecht
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New York Times best-selling author Neal Bascomb's Hunting Eichmann is the first complete narrative of the pursuit and capture of SS Nazi officer and Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann.
When the Allies stormed Berlin in the last days of the Third Reich, Adolf Eichmann shed his SS uniform and vanished. Following his escape from two American POW camps, his retreat into the mountains and out of Europe, and his path to an anonymous life in Buenos Aires, his pursuers
are a bulldog West German prosecutor, a blind Argentinean Jew and his beautiful daughter, and a budding, ragtag spy agency called the Mossad, whose operatives have their own scores to settle (and whose rare surveillance photographs are published here for the first time).
The capture of Eichmann and the efforts by Israeli agents to secret him out of Argentina to stand trial is the stunning conclusion to this thrilling historical account, told with the kind of pulse-pounding detail that rivals anything you'd find in great spy fiction.
"A fantastic true spy story."—Associated Press

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  • Release date

    March 12, 2009

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781456108359
      • File size: 362138 KB
      • Duration: 12:34:27

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      The infamous Nazi killer of Jews, Adolf Eichmann, escaped the war trials after WWII and hid himself in Argentina. The secret Israeli police, the Mossad, located him, and this account of the operation to kidnap and return him for trial in Israel should be rated as an audio thriller. Paul Hecht narrates it as such, keeping himself in the background and letting the suspense and twists of fate engage his listeners. His tone remains deep and aloof, adding to the tension as the action meets unplanned obstacles. Hecht uses only his normal speaking voice, pronouncing the many German and Spanish names like a native speaker. The detailed account of this important event qualifies as a worthwhile addition to the growing body of Holocaust literature. J.A.H. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      December 8, 2008
      After WWII, notorious Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann lived comfortably in Buenos Aires under an alias. Nazi hunters like Simon Wiesenthal sought Eichmann fruitlessly until 1956, when Eichmann's son bragged about his father's war exploits to his girlfriend's father, a half-Jew who had been blinded by the Gestapo and who alerted a Jewish attorney general of Hesse in Germany known for his prosecution of Nazis. Bascomb (The Perfect Mile
      ) details Eichmann's wartime atrocities and postwar escapes, and how, in 1960, the Israelis decided to have secret service operatives (one of whom, Isser Harel, recounted these events in 1975's The House on Garibaldi Street
      )—mostly Holocaust survivors—secretly kidnap Eichmann and fly him to Israel on El Al, disguised as an airline employee. Tried in Israel in 1961, Eichmann was executed in 1962. These were early days for Israel's now-legendary intelligence agencies, Mossad and Shin Bet, and it's fascinating how they accomplished their goal without the technical and monetary support that's now standard. Although Bascomb's prose is awkward, his work is well researched, including interviews with former Israeli operatives and El Al staff who participated in the capture, as well as Argentine fascists. This is a gripping read. Illus.

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