1906-1962

Presents Hannah Arendt's report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann and includes material unveiled since the trial, as well as Arendt's postscript addressing the controversy her account sparked when it first appeared in the "New Yorker.".

"A total re-assessment of the life of Adolf Eichmann that reveals his activities and notoriety amongst a global network of National Socialists following the collapse of the Third Reich, and permanently undermines Hannah Arendt's often-cited notion of the "banality of evil.""--Provided by publisher.

At the end of World War II, Adolf Eichmann walked into the mountains of Germany and vanished. Sixteen years later, an elite team of spies captured him at a bus stop in Argentina and smuggled him to Israel, resulting in one of the century's most important trials. Here is the story of what happened between these two events.

This biography of one of the key figures of the Jewish Holocaust is important for understanding the details that led to one of the most grisly periods of human history, as well as for those looking to bear witness to the Holocaust. The biography details Eichmann’s life as a young man, how he moved up the ranks within the Nazi regime, and his eventual self-exile to Argentina, where he hid until he was discovered and brought to trial for his crimes.

A first-person account by the Israeli agent who captured Hitler's chief executioner.

Presents the history of the group of spies, Holocaust survivors, and lawyers who persued Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi war criminal, for fifteen years in order to bring him to justice for his leadership role in the killing of thousands of Jews during World War II.