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The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World’s Most Notorious Nazi by Neal Bascomb.
Publication Date: 2013
Category: Nonfiction Title
Summary: Recounts how, sixteen years after the end of World War II, a team of undercover Israeli agents captured the Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann, in a remote area of Argentina and brought him to trial in Israel for crimes committed during the Holocaust.
Neal Bascomb’s The Nazi Hunters recounts the real life tale of how a group of spies and agents with the Israel secret police brought the Nazi Adolf Eichmann to justice. Eichmann was the head of the “final solution” which resulted in the genocide of millions of Jewish people. Eichmann went into hiding when the Nazi’s fell from power, and Bascomb does an amazing job recounting how Eichmann came back onto the radar of the Israeli spy network and the steps that went into verifying his …show more content…

This book is intensely moving as it recounts the horrendous acts Eichmann committed without remorse, and goes into the background of several of the key players in capturing him – many of them survivors of concentration camps or those who had lost family in the camps. The narrative of the book is intensely gripping and despite knowing Eichmann was captured, I was on the edge of my seat while reading the different stages of the plan and all the little things that went wrong or off-book in the process. In an amazing narrative technique, the story starts off in medias res on pages one and two with a scene that is later shown again on pages 124 and 125. The second time this scene is shown, however, the suspense is built so strongly that you cannot help but be nervous, even if you already know that Eichmann will ultimately be

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