2/4/14 ** Bascomb has succeeded in his quest to research and write about real events and people in a spy/thriller format. This book was gripping - the descriptions, pacing, and choice of events & people were masterful. The narrative structure of this tale of the search, capture, and trial of Adolf...
bookshelves: autumn-2011, fraudio, nonfiction, nazi-related, published-2009 Read from August 31 to September 02, 2011 Neal Bascomb did a fantastic job here; we were crowded around the speakers biting our knuckles When the Allies stormed Berlin in the last days of the Third Reich, Adolf Eichmann...
I was given this book by NetGalley in exchange of an honest review. This is the story of how Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi leader, was captured years after he escaped Germany post WWII. As I started reading I was expecting a textbook like experience. Instead it read more like a novel and I really enjoyed t...
Considering I knew the outcome, this beautifully written book read like a thriller; gripping, horrifying and ultimately satisfying. Thanks Bettie
I really enjoy stories of endurance and achievement, and this one was great. Very well written, and even though I knew how it would turn out, still, I couldn't put it down. Great book.My father was a young man during the time of this book. He frequently spoke quite fondly of how the entire world ...
Neal Bascomb did a fantastic job here; we were crowded around the speakers biting our knuckles
This book told the story of how the Israelis captured Eichmann. Although it is a historical book, it is captivating and reads like a novel. I was confronted by a deep, profound evil in the person of Eichmann. The first part of the book describes the horrors of the Holocaust, and one is reminded t...
Hunting Eichmann is an edge of the seat tense adventure story, and made all the more exciting when you realize that this is a true account of the life and eventual death of a notorious nazi killer. There is no more greater satisfaction than seeing someone of great evil being made to pay for his crim...
I haven't read Tom Clancy, so I don't know if the blurb on the back cover is correct.I wouldn't describe the book as a thriller, though the story is told very well. It makes a good companion piece to the essay in The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction written by one of the "hunters". Bascom...
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