{"product_id":"the-betrayal-of-anne-frank-9780008353872","title":"The Betrayal of Anne Frank","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERHums with living history, human warmth and indignation' New York TimesLess a mystery unsolved than a secret well keptThe mystery has haunted generations since the Second World War: Who betrayed Anne Frank and her family? And why?Now, thanks to radical new technology and the obsession of a retired FBI agent, this book offers an answer. Rosemary Sullivan unfolds the story in a gripping, moving narrative.Over thirty million people have read The Diary of a Young Girl, the journal teenaged Anne Frank kept while living in an attic with her family and four other people in Amsterdam during World War II, until the Nazis arrested them and sent them to a concentration camp. But despite the many works  journalism, books, plays and novels  devoted to Anne's story, none has ever conclusively explained how these eight people managed to live in hiding undetected for over two years  and who or what finally brought the Nazis to their door.With painstaking care, retired FBI ag\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe New York Times bestseller\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘A stunning piece of historical detective work, cleverly structured and grippingly written’\u003cbr\u003eDaily Telegraph, five stars\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘Powerfully illuminates what it was like to live under a genocidal regime’\u003cbr\u003eKathryn Hughes, Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘As much about the process of investigation as about the subject investigated. Along the way [Sullivan] lucidly describes many fascinating details of the compromises and betrayals of life under a murderous regime’\u003cbr\u003eCraig Brown, Mail on Sunday \u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘Sullivan circles all of the possibilities like Agatha Christie with Zoom and a time machine. Shaped like a procedural or a whodunit, The Betrayal of Anne Frank hums with living history, human warmth and indignation’\u003cbr\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘Featuring startling new revelations and an intriguing new theory of what happened’\u003cbr\u003eDaniel Finklestein, The Times\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘Praiseworthy. With impressive clarity and dramatic effect, Sullivan reconstructs a complex investigation lasting five years’\u003cbr\u003eGerard de Groot, The Times\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘A gripping, moving narrative’\u003cbr\u003ePress Association\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘Meticulous … Sullivan describes the Cold Case Team’s interdisciplinary methods, from criminal profiling, historical research and crowdsourcing to a Microsoft artificial intelligence program that found connections within a blizzard of archival documents. But the book is most engrossing as a portrait of wartime Amsterdam, a city of conflicting and cross-cutting loyalties, where personal peril could erase the line between heroism and villainy’\u003cbr\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48863956566359,"sku":"9780008353872","price":12.28,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780008353872.jpg?v=1722269763","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-betrayal-of-anne-frank-9780008353872","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}