Wallenberg : Lost Hero por Danny Smith - 1987

Templegate Pub, 1986-11-30. Paperback. Very Good. 0.5000 8.4016 5.5000.

Templegate Publishers, [1986]. Paperback. New. [NEW] Paperback.

Springfield, IL: Templegate Publishers. Near Fine. 1986. First Edition (?). Paperback. 087243155X . Softcover is heavy, glazed paper. Pages are clean, tight and crisp; this is a NEW book. Raoul Wallenberg is a fascinating person, a lost soul who came from a wealthy and powerful Swedish banking family, but had no real goals or direction in his life. Then, he found how much ONE person could make a difference. UNTIL, during World War II, when he was sent to the Swedish embassy in Budapest, Hungary, he became aware of the deliberate attempt by the Nazis and Hungarian Nazi sympathizers, to deport and/or kill all the Jews in the country. Budapest had been a main center of Jewish culture for centuries, whoever was the ruling force in the country. At first confined to a ghetto, then the beginnings of systematic deportations were begun. Wallenberg found his lifelong purpose--to stop this atrocity. At first he attained real Swedish passports for many Jews, but couldn't get them at anywhere near… Ler mais

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.