Raoul Wallenberg : the heroic life and mysterious disappearance of the man who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust / Ingrid Carlberg ; with an introduction by Kofi A. Annan ; translated from the Swedish by Ebba Segerberg.
Publisher:
MacLehose Press,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
639 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical table, map ; 24 cm.
"Det står ett rum här och väntar på dig." English
Notes:
Map on end papers. Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 607-621).
Contents:
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 -- Bragevägen, 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.
Summary:
"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.
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