Timetable: The Story Of Joel Brand
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
A gripping work of narrative history, Timetable: The Story of Joel Brand chronicles one of the most haunting and morally complex rescue missions of World War II — the desperate attempt by Hungarian Jewish emissary Joel Brand to negotiate with Adolf Eichmann to exchange the lives of one million Jews for trucks and supplies. Amos Elon reconstructs this extraordinary and tragic episode with meticulous detail, drawing on firsthand accounts, documents, and interviews to illuminate the bureaucratic indifference and political failures that doomed the mission before it could succeed. The narrative uncovers the labyrinthine world of wartime diplomacy, where Allied governments, Jewish organizations, and Nazi officials each played a role in sealing the fate of Hungary's Jews. Written with the urgency of a thriller yet grounded in rigorous historical scholarship, the account stands as both a searing indictment of institutional failure and a profound meditation on the limits of human agency in the face of genocide.
Author: Amos Elon
Format: Hardback
Published: 1981, Hutchinson
Genre: WW2
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
A gripping work of narrative history, Timetable: The Story of Joel Brand chronicles one of the most haunting and morally complex rescue missions of World War II — the desperate attempt by Hungarian Jewish emissary Joel Brand to negotiate with Adolf Eichmann to exchange the lives of one million Jews for trucks and supplies. Amos Elon reconstructs this extraordinary and tragic episode with meticulous detail, drawing on firsthand accounts, documents, and interviews to illuminate the bureaucratic indifference and political failures that doomed the mission before it could succeed. The narrative uncovers the labyrinthine world of wartime diplomacy, where Allied governments, Jewish organizations, and Nazi officials each played a role in sealing the fate of Hungary's Jews. Written with the urgency of a thriller yet grounded in rigorous historical scholarship, the account stands as both a searing indictment of institutional failure and a profound meditation on the limits of human agency in the face of genocide.