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03193aam a22004094i 4500 001 31EA80E85EC011E686B77DB1DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160810010341 008 150710t20162015nyuabfjerb 001 0beng d 010 $a 2015956916 020 $a 1681444909 020 $a 9781681444901 040 $d SKYRV $e rda $d SILO 050 4 $a D809.S8 082 04 $a B $b W196.8c 100 1 $a Carlberg, Ingrid, $e author. 240 10 $a "Det staÌr ett rum haÌr och vaÌntar paÌ dig." $l English 245 10 $a Raoul Wallenberg : $b the heroic life and mysterious disappearance of the man who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust / $c Ingrid Carlberg ; with an introduction by Kofi A. Annan ; translated from the Swedish by Ebba Segerberg. 246 1 $i Title on jacket: $a Raoul Wallenberg : $b the biography 264 1 $a New York : $b MacLehose Press, $c [2016] 300 $a 639 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations, genealogical table, map ; $c 24 cm. 500 $a Map on end papers. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 607-621). 505 0 $a Part I: What makes a person? -- A fragile happiness -- Two widows and a child -- No millionaire's airs -- Machine guns and American architecture -- The globetrotter -- Stockholm, February -- On his own two feet -- A military man with entrepreneurial ambition -- BragevaÌgen, November, "Farewell blues" -- The grocer -- Blasieholmen, May -- Part II: What makes an act heroic? -- The encounter in the elevator -- The assignment -- Djursholm, October -- Save as many as possible -- "Your relation to Sweden is the Kanthal Company" -- Buda, June -- Savagery -- Thirty-one houses and ten thousand bellies to fill -- Raoul Wallenberg Square, January -- "I am a Swede, son of a neutral nation" -- Ostrom utca, Autumn -- Part III: What determines a person's fate? -- From protected to missing -- Lefortovo Prison, April -- To behold the face of God -- "No one is interested in you" -- Donskoy Cemetery, April -- A Swede and a Soviet wall to break down -- What will do as a half-truth? -- Beside the Lubyanka, April -- The duel of the professors -- The making of an American hero -- Versailles, Spring -- "Goodbye, Mr. Wallenberg" -- Stockholm and Moscow -- Epilogue: Djursholm, Summer 2011. 520 $a "In this definitive biography, noted journalist Ingrid Carlberg has carried out unprecedented research into all elements of Wallenberg's life, narrating with vigor and insight the story of a heroic life, and navigating with wisdom and sensitivity the truth about his disappearance and death"--Jacket. 600 10 $a Wallenberg, Raoul, $d 1912-1947. 650 0 $a Diplomats $z Sweden $v Biography. 650 0 $a Diplomats $z Hungary $v Biography. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Rescue $x Rescue $z Hungary. 650 0 $a Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) $z Hungary. 655 0 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Annan, Kofi A. $q (Kofi Atta), $e writer of introduction. 700 1 $a Segerberg, Ebba, $e translator. 941 $a 2 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20210105034636.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20160810012041.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=31EA80E85EC011E686B77DB1DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search