Eichmann in My Hands, Harry Stein
Eichmann in My Hands, Harry Stein
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Eichmann in My Hands
A First-Person Account by the Israeli Agent Who Captured Hitler's Chief Executioner

Author: Harry Stein, Peter Z. Malkin

Narrator: Jonathan Davis

Unabridged: 8 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/09/2019

Synopsis

In 1960 Argentina, a covert team of Israeli agents hunted down the most elusive war criminal alive: Adolf Eichmann, chief architect of the Holocaust. The young spy who tackled Eichmann on a Buenos Aires street—and fought every compulsion to strangle the Obersturmführer then and there—was Peter Z. Malkin. For decades Malkin's identity as Eichmann's captor was kept secret. Here he reveals the entire breathtaking story—from the genesis of the top-secret surveillance operation to the dramatic public capture and smuggling of Eichmann to Israel to stand trial.

The result is a portrait of two men. One, a freedom fighter, intellectually curious and driven to do right. The other, the dutiful Good German who, through his chillingly intimate conversations with Malkin, reveals himself as the embodiment of what Hannah Arendt called "the banality of evil." Singular, riveting, troubling, and gratifying, Eichmann in My Hands "remind[s] of what is at stake: not only justice but our own humanity" (New York Newsday).

Now Malkin's story comes to life on the screen with Oscar Isaac playing the heroic Mossad agent and Academy Award winner Ben Kingsley playing Eichmann in Operation Finale.

About Harry Stein

Harry Stein is an American author and columnist. As of 2009, he is a contributing editor to the political magazine City Journal. Stein is a graduate of Pomona College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Pramod on September 17, 2015

Eichmann in my Hands, by Peter Malkin and Harry Stein is a tense and exciting personal memoir, which narrates the true accounts from Mossad’s mission in Buenos Aires which led to the capture and trial of Adolf Eichmann - a name which synonyms with Nazism and evils during the days of Holocaust – the......more

Goodreads review by Gary on August 30, 2019

In 1960 , a small group of elite Israeli agents secretly went into Argentina to capture the world's most wanted war criminal Adolf Eichmann , and bring him to justice. Their task was to to lead a team to Argentina to capture Eichmann alive, and to take him back to Israel for trial, so that the truth......more

Goodreads review by Gary on June 25, 2018

In 1960 , a small group of elite Israeli agents secretly went into Argentina to capture the world's most wanted war criminal Adolf Eichmann , and bring him to justice. Their task was to to lead a team to Argentina to capture Eichmann alive, and to take him back to Israel for trial, so that the truth......more

Goodreads review by Panda on October 17, 2022

This book started out slowly and didn't hold my interest at first, but once Malkin began writing about the operation to capture Eichmann, I was riveted. The story balances the quotidian and the thrilling details essential to any long-term stakeout and secretive operation, and it never feels sensatio......more

Goodreads review by Elisa on February 21, 2019

Beautiful written and compelling story. One of those books that makes me want to know more about what happened, especially about the trial. I would highly recommend.......more

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