Hunting Evil. The Nazi War Criminals Who Escaped And The Quest To Bring Them To Justice

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Broadway Books
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 2009
Edition: First Edition

Description: 518 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: At the end of the Second World War, an estimated 30,000 Nazi war criminals fled from justice, including some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi Party. Many of them have names that resonate deeply in twentieth-century history -- Eichmann, Mengele, Martin Bormann, and Klaus Barbie -- not just for the monstrosity of their crimes, but also because of the shadowy nature of their post-war existence, holed up in the depths of Latin America, always one step ahead of their pursuers. Aided and abetted by prominent people throughout Europe, they hid in foreboding castles high in the Austrian alps, and were taken in by shady Argentine secret agents. The attempts to bring them to justice are no less dramatic, featuring vengeful Holocaust survivors, inept politicians, and daring plots to kidnap or assassinate the fugitives. In this exhaustively researched and compellingly written work of World War II history and investigative reporting, journalist and novelist Guy Walters gives a comprehensi

ISBN: 9780767928731