A revised edition of an investigation into the fate of Raoul Wallenberg, a gentile who saved tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews during the Nazi Holocaust. Debates whether Wallenberg survived beyond his KGB-reported death in 1947.

Righteous Gentile

BIERMAN, John

Literature & Fiction

Penguin Uk

Half a century after he disappeared into the Soviet prison system, the fate of Raoul Wallenberg--who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust--remains a mystery. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, KGB files were opened, but the Wallenberg file had been destroyed, thereby eliminating any evidence to support the Kremlin's claim that Wallenberg died in prison in 1947. Bierman concludes that we may never know the truth. Photos.

Righteous Gentile: The Story of Raoul Wallenberg, Missing Hero of the Holocaust

Biographies & Memoirs

Penguin Group USA

'Excellent...a remarkable achievement and ought to be recognized as one of the most successful histories of the Western Desert and North African fighting yet to have appeared' - John Keegan, "Daily Telegraph". For the British, the battle fought at ElAlamein in October 1942 became the turning point of the Second World War. In this study of the desert war, John Bierman and Colin Smith show why it is remembered by its survivors as a 'war without hate'. Through extensive research the authors provide a compellingly fresh perspective on the see-saw campaign in which the two sides chased each other back and forth across the unforgiving North African landscape.

Alamein: War Without Hate

History

Europe

Penguin??Books

Who was the real 'English patient'? The desert explorer Laszlo Almasy, on whom the character was loosely based, was very different from the romantic hero of the prize-winning novel anmd multiple Oscar-winning movie of that name. But a similar aura of mystery surrounds them both. While the fictional Almasy gave the Germans his desert maps only because he was desperate to keep a promise to his dying mistress, the real-life Almasy worked for Germany military intelligence only because he was desperate for the chance to return to the desert he loved more than anything or anybody else. Or so John Bierman implies in this arresting and carefully-researched biography. Among its many unexpected revelations is that far from being the love of his friend's wife, Almasy was a homosexual with no interest at all in the opposite sex. Nor was he really a count, although he was born into the minor Hungarian nobility. In short, the real-life Almasy remains an enigma. For instance there is good reason to believe that he became a double agent working for both sides in World War II - and compelling evidence that he spied for British intelligence during the Cold War.

Secret Life Of Laszlo Almasy: The Real English Patient

Leaders & Notable People

Documents World War II campaigns between the invasion of Egypt in 1940 and the surrender of Axis forces in 1943, profiling such figures as the "Desert Fox," Lieutenant General Montgomery, and Hungarian adventurer Laszlo Almasy. Originally published as The Battle of Alamein. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

War Without Hate: The Desert Campaign of 1940-43

Smith,Colin

A biography of the American 19th-century explorer, Henry Morton Stanley. This book recounts his three African expeditions, including his meeting with Livingstone and his journey to free the Emin Pasha. The author has also written "Napoleon III and His Colonial Empire" and "Righteous Gentile".

Dark Safari: The Life Behind the Legend of Henry Morton Stanley

Travelers & Explorers

Univ of Texas Pr

Profiles the life and rollicking times of the man who became the Emperor Napoleon III, detailing his improbable rise, his theatrical politics, and the numerous liasons that made him the most scandalous ruler of the day

Napoleon III and His Carnival Empire

St Martins Pr

Napoleon III, the nephew of Napolean Bonaparte, was elected President of France in 1848 and three years later became Emperor. He was considered the arbiter of Europe and led his country into four major wars. His political techniques anticipated the Fascist dictators of the 1920s and 1930s, and included many characteristics which foreshadowed modern democratic politics. He also scandalized Europe with his numerous mistresses, who included Countess Castiglione, a young Italian spy who was known as the most beautiful woman in Europe, and Countess Walewska, the scheming wife of his own foreign minister. This biography of Napoleon III chronicles his rise to power, his influence on Fascism, and describes the Second Empire, a frenetic epoch in French history.

Dark Safari: The Life Behind the Legend of H.M. Stanley

Hodder & Stoughton General Division

Winston Churchill thought he was a military genius; others considered him greatly overrated; a few even thought him mad. Almost sixty years after his death at age forty-four in an airplane crash, Orde Wingate remains perhaps the most controversial of all World War II commanders. Born into a fundamentalist Christian sect and raised in the Cromwellian tradition of Sword and Bible, Wingate was an odd mixture of religious mystic and idealist, combining an unshakable belief in an Old Testament God with an insatiable interest in music, literature, history, philosophy, and the politics of his day. But his overriding and enduring passion was for Zionism, a cause that--although he had no Jewish blood--he embraced when posted to British-ruled Palestine in 1936. There he raised the Special Night Squads, an irregular force that decimated Arab rebel bands and taught a future generation of Israeli generals how to fight. In 1941, Wingate led another guerrilla-style force, this time into Italian-occupied Ethiopia, where he was instrumental in restoring Emperor Haile Selassie to his throne. But the campaign that was to bring him world fame was conducted behind enemy lines in Burma, where his Chindits shattered the myth of Japanese invincibility in jungle fighting, giving Allied morale a much-needed boost at a crucial point in World War II. Throughout his career, Wingate's unconventionality and disdain for the superiors he dismissed as "military apes" marked him as a difficult if not impossible subordinate. He was that, but also, as this vigorous new study reveals, an inspiring leader.

Fire in the Night: Wingate of Burma, Ethiopia, and Zion

Historical

Random House]

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Righteous Gentile

Righteous Gentile: The Story of Raoul Wallenberg, Missing Hero of the Holocaust

Alamein: War Without Hate

Secret Life Of Laszlo Almasy: The Real English Patient

War Without Hate: The Desert Campaign of 1940-43

Dark Safari: The Life Behind the Legend of Henry Morton Stanley

Napoleon III and His Carnival Empire

Napoleon III and His Carnival Empire

Dark Safari: The Life Behind the Legend of H.M. Stanley

Fire in the Night: Wingate of Burma, Ethiopia, and Zion