Foley: The Spy Who Saved 10,000 Jews - Couverture rigide

Smith, Michael

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0340718501 ISBN 13 : 9780340718506

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

Book by MICHAEL SMITH

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Frank Foley worked as Passport Control Officer in Berlin during the war and helped thousands of Jews to escape from Germany. At the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann he was described as a 'Scarlet Pimpernel', risking his own life to save Jews threatened with death by the Nazis. In fact, his post at the Passport Office was a front for his real role as MI6 head of station. Despite having no diplomatic immunity and being liable to arrest at any time, he went into the concentration camps to get Jews out, he hid them in his home and helped them to get forged passports. One Jewish aid worker estimated that he saved 'tens of thousands' of people from the Holocaust.

Michael Smith has researched and vividly written one of the greatest unknown heroic stories of the Second World War.

Revue de presse :

"One of the great heroic figures of the Holocaust, equal at least to Oskar Schindler and Raoul Wallenberg." -- Jerusalem Post

"A fascinating book. Smith writes well: coolly and unexaggeratedly, sensibly and authoritatively." -- Daily Telegraph

"Crisp and informative. Very effectively conveys the atmosphere of cumulative danger experienced by Jews in Germany under the Nazis." -- The Times

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0340718501
• ISBN 13: 9780340718506
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 304