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The envoy : the epic rescue of the last Jews of Europe in the desperate closing months of World War II / Alex Kershaw. |
| Authors: | Kershaw, Alex. |
| Call number: | 940.531835 KER |
| Publisher: | Cambridge, Mass. : Da Capo Press, Inc., c2010. |
| Publication date: | c2010. |
| Subject: |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Hungary -- Budapest.
Rescue work -- Hungary -- Budapest -- History -- 20th century. Diplomats -- Sweden -- Biography. Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust -- Biography. Jews -- Persecutions -- Hungary -- Budapest -- History -- 20th century. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Hungary -- Budapest. Budapest (Hungary) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century. Wallenberg, Raoul, 1912-1947. Eichmann, Adolf, 1906-1962. |
| Title: | The envoy : the epic rescue of the last Jews of Europe in the desperate closing months of World War II / Alex Kershaw. |
| Physical description: | x, 294 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., facsims., maps, ports. ; 23 cm. |
| Summary note: | The epic and heroic story of how Raoul Wallenberg out-dueled Adolph Eichmann and saved more than 100,000 Jews in Budapest from the Nazi death camps. |
| Biography note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-277) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780306815577 (hc.) 0306815575 (hc.) |
| LCCN: | 2010927187 |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1264019 |
| Bib No.: | 1264019 |