Until I read this book, I didn't realize how little I knew about the post-WWII era. I'd assumed that surely every civilized person wanted to bring Nazi war criminals to justice. On the contrary, Eichmann's discovery/capture/trial was a risky long-shot, a venture whose success transformed the worl...
This is a shattering work - it's hard to even imagine how concentration camp survivors in 1962 held themselves in check to keep from killing Eichmann (a true "creep" and "monster" . . . words I don't often use to describe nasty people, but that man deserved them). Mossad (and Ben Gurion's govern...
A riveting account of the Potempkin uprising. Also featured is a nice quick character study of Nicholas II, and the policies and traits that lead almost directly to the 1905 revolution, and of course eventually the 1917 revolution, and the later Bolshevik coup. I was interested to not that, com...
Wearing an immaculately cut suit and a thin tie and carrying a briefcase, he stepped onto the portable staircase that had been rolled to the plane's side and into the harsh glare of the Argentine sun. Gat failed to notice the photographer who had already snapped several pictures of him before he ...
Finally, in the early evening, his deputy minister of the interior, Trepov, telephoned his office, forwarding a message from General Kakhanov. The information it conveyed was, however, mistaken. Kakhanov stated that the squadron had surrounded the Potemkin that afternoon and that the mutinous sai...