Forged In Fury
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: small tear in interior of binding.
In the smouldering aftermath of the Second World War, a group of Jewish survivors — hardened by unimaginable atrocity — chose not to mourn but to act, forming a clandestine organisation dedicated to hunting down and executing Nazi war criminals who had evaded justice. Forged in Fury chronicles the remarkable and chilling true story of Nakam, a secret band of Holocaust survivors who took the law into their own hands, pursuing perpetrators of genocide across Europe with cold, calculated resolve. Michael Elkins details their operations with the precision of a seasoned investigative journalist, reconstructing the network's planning, its audacious missions, and the moral weight carried by those who saw vengeance not as a crime, but as an obligation owed to the dead. Elkins, a distinguished foreign correspondent based in Israel, brings both journalistic rigour and deep human empathy to a story that sits at the intersection of history, ethics, and survival. The narrative raises profound questions about justice, memory, and the limits of civilised restraint when civilisation itself has utterly failed. Written with a taut, unsparing prose style that refuses sentimentality, this account stands as a vital and troubling testament to what human beings are capable of — both in perpetrating evil and in answering it. For anyone who believes justice was fully served at Nuremberg, this book presents a far more unsettling and complicated truth.
Author: Michael Elkins
Format: Hardback
Genre: WW2
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: small tear in interior of binding.
In the smouldering aftermath of the Second World War, a group of Jewish survivors — hardened by unimaginable atrocity — chose not to mourn but to act, forming a clandestine organisation dedicated to hunting down and executing Nazi war criminals who had evaded justice. Forged in Fury chronicles the remarkable and chilling true story of Nakam, a secret band of Holocaust survivors who took the law into their own hands, pursuing perpetrators of genocide across Europe with cold, calculated resolve. Michael Elkins details their operations with the precision of a seasoned investigative journalist, reconstructing the network's planning, its audacious missions, and the moral weight carried by those who saw vengeance not as a crime, but as an obligation owed to the dead. Elkins, a distinguished foreign correspondent based in Israel, brings both journalistic rigour and deep human empathy to a story that sits at the intersection of history, ethics, and survival. The narrative raises profound questions about justice, memory, and the limits of civilised restraint when civilisation itself has utterly failed. Written with a taut, unsparing prose style that refuses sentimentality, this account stands as a vital and troubling testament to what human beings are capable of — both in perpetrating evil and in answering it. For anyone who believes justice was fully served at Nuremberg, this book presents a far more unsettling and complicated truth.