The Envoy The Epic Rescue of the Last Jews of Europe in the Desperate Closing Months of World War II

by Kershaw, Alex

• ISBN13: 9780306820434
• ISBN10: 0306820439
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-11-01
• Publisher: Da Capo Press

Summary

In July 1944, thirty-two-year-old Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg arrived in Budapest on a mission to rescue the last Jews of Europe. Over the next six months, he repeatedly risked his life to save tens of thousands of Jews, defying mass murderer Adolf Eichmann and crazed Hungarian fascists while enduring one of the bloodiest sieges of World War II. Tragically, when Budapest was finally liberated, the Holocaust's greatest hero had disappeared into the Soviet gulag; to this day, his exact fate is unknown.

Author Biography

Alex Kershaw is the author of the acclaimed bestsellers The Bedford Boys, The Longest Winter, The Few, and Escape from the Deep, as well as biographies of both Jack London and Robert Capa. He lives in Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Map of Hungary, 1944	p. xii
Map of Budapest, 1944	p. xiii
The Final Solution
Wannsee	p. 3
On the Run	p. 7
Mauthausen	p. 15
The Last Refuge	p. 21
Darkness at Noon
Escape from Auschwitz	p. 37
The Cruelest Summer	p. 43
The Swedish Pimpernel	p. 51
The Majestic Hotel	p. 61
Operation Panzerfaust	p. 83
Red Danube
The Arrow Cross	p. 99
The Road to Hegyeshalom	p. 105
Dinner with Eichmann	p. 117
December 1944	p. 129
The Inferno	p. 137
The Cold War
Liberation	p. 161
The Fall	p. 171
Lost Hero	p. 177
Brave New Worlds	p. 187
Going After the "Master"	p. 197
The Wallenberg Mystery	p. 211
The Last Survivors	p. 223
Appendix: Losses of Hungarian Jews During World War II	p. 231
Notes	p. 233
Bibliography	p. 269
Index	p. 279
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