Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World's Most Notorious Nazi Get it now!

One knows, from the beginning, how this story ends. But with Neal Bascomb's talented pen, the thrill of the chase never wavers. Exposed by his son's chance comment to a blind man's daughter, Adolf Eichmann's road to justice from his capture by the Mossad on Garibaldi Street outside of Buenos Aires to his trial 1960 and hanging in Israel in 1962 is more thrilling in real life than any mystery. Eichmann's ratline escape in 1950 from Europe, his life in Argentina, Mossad's planning, trial runs, checks and rechecks of Eichmann's identification, the El Al flight across the Atlantic to Dakar; all are packed with excitement and drama. Bascomb never overplays his hand or is biased; his portrait of the aged and captured Eichmann masked, lying on a bed ready for transshipment to Israel is sensitive. Eichmann's purposeful non defiant walk to his hanging - resigned to the noose - captures the condemned and at the same time the talent of this writer. Israel's commitment to bringing Eichmann to justice - in the face of international pusillanimity and outrage - is capped off by its hilarious understated riposte to the Argentine's foreign minister that the kidnapping was done by "a group of Jewish volunteers, including some Israelis." Bascombe's story draws from an outpouring of articles and books. His bibliography is detailed and informative. Not even the movie will capture this book's suspense.Get more detail about Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World's Most Notorious Nazi.