The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan – A Boy Avenger, a Nazi Diplomat, and a Murder in Paris - Couverture rigide

Kirsch, Jonathan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0871404524 ISBN 13 : 9780871404527

Editeur : Liveright, 2013

Synopsis

Book by Kirsch Jonathan

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

On 7 November 1938, Herschel Grynszpan, a seventeen-year-old Jewish refugee, walked into the German embassy in Paris and shot Ernst vom Rath, a Nazi diplomat. Two days later, the Third Reich exploited the murder to unleash Kristallnacht. Jonathan Kirsch brings to light this wrenching story, re-examining the historical details and moral dimensions of one of the Second World War's most enigmatic cases. Kirsch questions whether Grynszpan was a psychopath, as Hannah Arendt claimed, or an early resistance fighter, and whether he and his victim were intimately connected, as Grynszpan claimed. Part page-turning thriller and part legal drama this biography illuminates a life cast into the shadows of history.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Jonathan Kirsch is the author of the bestsellers Harlot by the Side of the Road and The Grand Inquisitor's Manual. He contributes book reviews to the Los Angeles Times.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Liveright
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0871404524
• ISBN 13: 9780871404527
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 352