Envoy by Alex Kershaw
December 1944. Soviet and German troops fight from house to house in the shattered, corpse-strewn suburbs of Budapest. Crazed Hungarian fascists join with die-hard Nazis to slaughter Jews day and night, turning the Danube blood-red. In less than six months, thirty-eight-year-old SS Colonel Adolf Eichmann has sent over half a million Hungarians to the gas chambers in Auschwitz. Now all that prevents him from liquidating Europes last Jewish ghetto is an unarmed Swedish diplomatic envoy named Raoul Wallenberg. The Envoys Briefcase is the stirring tale of how one man made the greatest difference in the face of untold evil. The legendary Oscar Schindler saved hundreds, but Raoul Wallenberg did what no other individual or nation managed to do: He saved more than 100,000 Jewish men, women, and children from extermination. Written with Alex Kershaws customary narrative verve, The Envoys Briefcase is a fast-paced, nonfiction thriller that brings to life one of the darkest and yet most inspiring chapters of twentieth century history. It is an epic for the ages.Alex Kershaw has worked as a contributing editor at GQ and a feature writer for The Weekend Guardian and the Sunday Times. He is the author of the New York Times bestselling wartime histories The Bedford Boys and The Longest Winter, as well as the biographies Jack London: A Life in Blood and Champagne: The Life and Times of Robert Capa.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780306815577 |
| ISBN 10 | 0306815575 |
| Title | Envoy |
| Author | Alex Kershaw |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Hachette Books |
| Year published | 2010-10-26 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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