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Righteous Gentile
Righteous Gentile
Oct 7, 2024 5:22 PM

Author:John Bierman

Righteous Gentile

Swallowed up by the Soviet prison system, the fate of Raoul Wallenberg, saviour of tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews during the Nazi holocaust, remains a mystery.

Recently KGB files have been opened and many Communist crimes have been fully exposed. Yet there is still no evidence, apart from a handwritten note of doubtful authenticity, to support the Kremlin's claim that in 1947 Wallenberg, then thirty-five years old, died of a heart attack in prison. On the other hand there is abundant evidence - none of it conclusive, but much of it highly persuasive - that Wallenberg remained alive in captivity long after 1947, broken in body and spirit, somewhere in the vastness of the former Soviet Union.

Righteous Gentile is the first book to tell the full story of Raoul Wallenberg's shining wartime exploits and shameful post-war incarceration.

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The camps and their corrosive legacy are Vulliamy's subject in this searing book, in which he writes with controlled and righteous anger about the absence of any "reckoning"

—— Daily Telegraph

Impassioned ... riveting and chilling

—— Financial Times

Haunting

—— Sunday Times

A beautifully written and deeply heartfelt study in survival

—— Sunday Business Post

A stark and brilliant testimony about a massive human atrocity

—— Sunday Business Post

Brilliant account

—— Katie Owen , Sunday Telegraph

Delectable biography

—— Telegraph

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—— Times Literary Supplement

[A] superb book.

—— Sunday Telegraph

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Wise has brilliantly combined a scalp-tingler with a scholarly account...It is exceptionally well organised, rich in data and hard to put down

—— Edward Pearce , Glasgow Herald

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—— Christopher Hirst , Independent

Fascinating study of everything under London, from rats and eels to monsters and ghosts.

—— Lady (Five-star review)

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—— James Urquhart , Financial Times

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—— Leon Burakowski , Halesowen Chronicle

Reveals the London beneath your feet in all its fascinating – and sometimes horrifying – glory. Historian and novelist Ackroyd invests his tales of buried rivers and catacombs with enormous energy

—— ELLE Decoration
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