Book : The Ratline The Exalted Life And Mysterious Death Of.

-Titulo Original : The Ratline The Exalted Life And Mysterious Death Of A Nazi Fugitive

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Vintage

-Descripcion Original:

A tale of Nazi lives, mass murder, love, Cold War espionage, a mysterious death in the Vatican, and the Nazi escape route to Perons Argentina,the Ratline-from the author of the internationally acclaimed, award-winning East West Street.Hypnotic, shocking, and unputdownable. -John le Carre, internationally renowned bestselling authorBaron Otto von Wachter, a lawyer, husband, and father, was also a senior SS officer and war criminal, indicted for the murder of more than a hundred thousand Poles and Jews. Although he was given a new identity and life via “the Ratline” to Argentina, the escape route taken by thousands of other Nazis, Wachter and his plan were cut short by his mysterious, shocking death in Rome. In the midst of the burgeoning Cold War, was he being recruited by the Americans or by the Soviets-or perhaps both? Or was he poisoned by one side or the other, as his son believes-or by both? With the cooperation of Wachter’s son Horst, who believes his father to have been “a good man,” award-winning author Philippe Sands draws on a trove of family correspondence to piece together Wachter’s extraordinary life before and during the war, his years evading justice, and his sudden, puzzling death. A riveting work of history, The Ratline is part historical detective story, part love story, part family memoir, and part Cold War espionage thriller. Review “Extraordinary. . . . A Nazi love story, but a fascinating and important one, told in vivid detail. . . . Suspenseful.” -The New York Times Book Review“[Otto’s and Horst’s stories] collide and reverberate to staggering effect. . . . Fascinating.” -The Wall Street Journal “A narrative of spycraft and power shifts . . . breathtaking in its twists. . . . Remarkable. . . . Horst, now in his eighties, is a fascinating character, willing to explore his father’s ugly history in great detail without letting go of the belief that he must have been a ‘good’ Nazi. . . . Carefully, gently, meticulously, [Sands has] engaged every protest, every excuse, every question Horst has raised to show exactly who Otto was and what he did.” -Los Angeles Times“Damning and meticulously researched. . . . A riveting and insightful historical page-turner that proves to be part History Channel, part W. G. Sebald.” -Harper’s Magazine “A feat of exhilarating storytelling- gripping, gratifying and morally robust. . . . A taut and finely crafted factual thriller, reminiscent in density and pace of John le Carre. . . . Sands is unflinching. . . . He pursues the details and we are left with the unsettling, discordant portrait of a man who is conceivably a passionate husband and devoted father, but irrefutably a war criminal with blood, including that of Sands’s own family members, on his hands.” -The Guardian“Part detective story and part love story. . . . Sands’s ability to tease out Horst’s emotional, and often contradictory, views of his father as an indicted war criminal is fascinating. . . . He unlocks here a series of provocative questions about culpability, collective guilt, and the advancement of international law.” -Los Angeles Review of Books “A gripping adventure, an astounding journey of discovery, and a terrifying and timely portrait of evil in all its complexity, banality, selfjustification, and madness. A stunning achievement.” -Stephen Fry “Sands’s untangling of the mysteries surrounding Otto von Wachter is masterfully done.” -The Sunday Times (London) “A formidable piece of historical sleuthing written with all the pace and suspense of a thriller.” -Financial Times “A compelling piece of forensic historical research-one that is every bit as good as East West Street.” -The Telegraph (London) “Extraordinary. . . . Fast-paced. . . . With enough twists and turns to keep the reader grimly absorbed, The Ratline is an electrifying true crime.” -Evening Standard (London) “Fascinating. . . . A portrait of not only the banality, but the domesticity of evil. . . . Co