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Eichmann in My Hands

A First-Person Account by the Israeli Agent Who Captured Hitler's Chief Executioner

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Eichmann in My Hands

By: Peter Z. Malkin, Harry Stein
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
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In 1960 Argentina, a covert team of Israeli agents hunted down the most elusive war criminal alive: Adolf Eichmann, chief architect of the Holocaust. The young spy who tackled Eichmann on a Buenos Aires street - and fought every compulsion to strangle the Obersturmführer then and there - was Peter Z. Malkin. For decades Malkin's identity as Eichmann's captor was kept secret. Here he reveals the entire breathtaking story - from the genesis of the top-secret surveillance operation to the dramatic public capture and smuggling of Eichmann to Israel to stand trial.

The result is a portrait of two men. One, a freedom fighter, intellectually curious and driven to do right. The other, the dutiful Good German who, through his chillingly intimate conversations with Malkin, reveals himself as the embodiment of what Hannah Arendt called "the banality of evil." Singular, riveting, troubling, and gratifying, Eichmann in My Hands "remind[s] of what is at stake: not only justice but our own humanity" (New York Newsday).

Now Malkin's story comes to life on the screen with Oscar Isaac playing the heroic Mossad agent and Academy Award winner Ben Kingsley playing Eichmann in Operation Finale.

©1990 Peter Z. Malkin and Harry Stein (P)2019 Tantor 20th Century Freedom & Security Military Modern Politics & Government World Espionage War Holocaust Argentina Scary

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Having watched a Netflix film about the capture of Eichmann, I enjoyed reading how it really happened. I wasn’t expecting a detailed background of people involved but am so glad I heard about the people who brought him to justice and a little of the early days of Israel before and after independence. If you don’t understand the true history of the Palestine mandate and birth of Israel you cannot understand the importance of never ceasing to hunt down Nazis and their supporters including sovereign nations. The author’s humanity shines through and again is something I enjoyed learning about. It is read brilliantly. This isn’t just a book about how Eichmann was captured. It is about why he was captured. It exposes the depth of depravity of Nazis and shows Eichmann for the monster he was.

Fascinating & important account of the Nazi that organised the extermination of 6 million Jews.

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recommend this book because it was informative, interesting and compelling to listen to. The narrator was extremely good.

I highly....

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Inersting insight into the story of how Eichmann was caught. Enjoyed it on the whole but probably wouldn't listen again. Give it a go.

Worth the price of entry...

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I have heard the story of the capture of Eichmann so I was expecting to hear the full version told by the people who carried it out but the first half of the book is full of ( how the world owes the Jews ) and this agent makes himself out to by a Jewish superhero. Poor stuff

Half a book of filler

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