Minister Of Death: The Adolf Eichmann Story
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 1st uk ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few figures in modern history embody the calculated machinery of genocide quite like Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer whose meticulous bureaucratic hand orchestrated the deportation of millions of Jewish men, women, and children to their deaths during the Holocaust. Minister of Death: The Adolf Eichmann Story chronicles the full arc of Eichmann's terrifying career — from his early rise through the ranks of the SS to his postwar flight into hiding in Argentina, and his ultimate capture by Israeli Mossad agents in a landmark operation that brought him before a Jerusalem court in 1961. Written with the narrative urgency of seasoned journalists and researchers, this account presents a chilling portrait of evil dressed in the banality of bureaucratic efficiency, echoing the phrase later coined by Hannah Arendt. The authors argue that understanding Eichmann is not merely an exercise in historical inquiry but a moral imperative — a warning about how ordinary structures of authority can be weaponised for extraordinary atrocity. A riveting and essential work, it leaves the reader asking a deeply unsettling question: how does a system produce a man like Eichmann, and what does it take to ensure the world never does so again?
Author: Quentin Reynolds, Ephraim Katz, Zwy Aldouby
Format: Hardback
Published: 1961, Cassell, London
Genre: Biography
Edition: 1st uk ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few figures in modern history embody the calculated machinery of genocide quite like Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer whose meticulous bureaucratic hand orchestrated the deportation of millions of Jewish men, women, and children to their deaths during the Holocaust. Minister of Death: The Adolf Eichmann Story chronicles the full arc of Eichmann's terrifying career — from his early rise through the ranks of the SS to his postwar flight into hiding in Argentina, and his ultimate capture by Israeli Mossad agents in a landmark operation that brought him before a Jerusalem court in 1961. Written with the narrative urgency of seasoned journalists and researchers, this account presents a chilling portrait of evil dressed in the banality of bureaucratic efficiency, echoing the phrase later coined by Hannah Arendt. The authors argue that understanding Eichmann is not merely an exercise in historical inquiry but a moral imperative — a warning about how ordinary structures of authority can be weaponised for extraordinary atrocity. A riveting and essential work, it leaves the reader asking a deeply unsettling question: how does a system produce a man like Eichmann, and what does it take to ensure the world never does so again?