The true story behind “one of history’s great manhunts” and the
film Operation Finale by the Mossad legend who caught the most wanted
Nazi in the world (The New York Times). 1n 1960 Argentina, a covert
team of Israeli agents hunted down the most elusive war criminal
alive: Adolf Eichmann, chief architect of the Holocaust. The young spy
who tackled Eichmann on a Buenos Aires street—and fought every
compulsion to strangle the Obersturmführer then and there—was Peter
Z. Malkin. For decades Malkin’s identity as Eichmann’s captor was
kept secret. Here he reveals the entire breathtaking story—from the
genesis of the top-secret surveillance operation to the dramatic
public capture and smuggling of Eichmann to Israel to stand trial.
The result is a portrait of two men. One, a freedom fighter,
intellectually curious and driven to do right. The other, the dutiful
Good German who, through his chillingly intimate conversations with
Malkin, reveals himself as the embodiment of what Hannah Arendt called
“the banality of evil.” Singular, riveting, troubling, and
gratifying, Eichmann in My Hands “remind[s] of what is at stake: not
only justice but our own humanity” (New York Newsday). Now
Malkin’s story comes to life on the screen with Oscar Isaac playing
the heroic Mossad agent and Academy Award winner Ben Kingsley playing
Eichmann in Operation Finale.
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ISBN
9781504055499
Publisert
2018
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Vendor
Open Road Media
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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