{"product_id":"eichmann-before-jerusalem-the-unexamined-life-of-a-mass-murderer-9781784700010","title":"Eichmann before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book of 2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSmuggled out of Europe after the collapse of Germany, Eichmann managed to live a peaceful and active exile in Argentina for years before his capture by the Mossad. Though once widely known by nicknames such as 'Manager of the Holocaust', he was able to portray himself, from the defendant's box in Jerusalem in 1960, as an overworked bureaucrat following orders – no more, he said, than 'just a small cog in Adolf Hitler's extermination machine'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow was this carefully crafted obfuscation possible? How did a principal architect of the Final Solution manage to disappear? How had he occupied himself in hiding?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing upon an astounding trove of newly discovered documentation, Stangneth gives us a chilling portrait not of a reclusive, taciturn war criminal on the run, but of a highly skilled social manipulator with an inexhaustible ability to reinvent himself, an unrepentant murderer eager for acolytes to discuss past glories and vigorously planning future goals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEichmann before Jerusalem\u003c\/i\u003e is history at its best.  Meticulously researched, compellingly argued, engagingly written.  Bettina Stangneth confronts Hannah Arendt’s notion of the 'banality of evil' with important new evidence and nuanced insight, permitting a fresh and informed reassessment of this riven debate.  Arendt would surely have applauded the Stangneth challenge -- Timothy W. Ryback\u003cbr\u003eStangneth has mined an \u003cb\u003eextraordinary\u003c\/b\u003e trove of new documentary material… \u003cb\u003eMeticulous\u003c\/b\u003e, scholarly and highly readable... \u003cb\u003eA tour de force\u003c\/b\u003e of historical revision -- Ben Macintyre * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eThanks to this \u003cb\u003ebrilliant\u003c\/b\u003e book, exhaustively researched and \u003cb\u003econvincingly argued\u003c\/b\u003e, the veil has at last been lifted [on Eichmann's role in the Holocaust] -- Saul David * The Daily Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbsorbing\u003c\/b\u003e... Bettina Stangneth's disturbing account of Adolf Eichmann's years in exile reveals the full extent of his cynicism, inhumanity and moral self-deception -- Richard J Evans * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEichmann Before Jerusalem\u003c\/i\u003e is both an unintimidated challenge to Hannah Arendt’s glib notion of Eichmann’s insignificance and a clear analysis of the origins and enduring uses of Holocaust Denial * Times Literary Supplement *","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48741236769111,"sku":"9781784700010","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781784700010.jpg?v=1720056982","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/eichmann-before-jerusalem-the-unexamined-life-of-a-mass-murderer-9781784700010","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}