"A poignant and riveting investigation" behind an iconic photograph of the Holocaust in Poland (Elie Wiesel)."An often disturbing, sometimes uplifting but always fascinating and incredible piece of history drawn from a single image. This book is destined to become a classic piece of work on the Holocaust." — The Herald-Dispatch (Huntington, WV)A cobblestone road. A sunny day. A soldier. A gun. A c...

Beginning in 1950, the state of Israel prosecuted and jailed dozens of Holocaust survivors who had served as camp kapos or ghetto police under the Nazis. At last comes the first full account of the kapo trials, based on records newly declassified after forty years.In December 1945, a Polish-born commuter on a Tel Aviv bus recognized a fellow rider as the former head of a town council the Nazis had established to manage the Jews. When he denounced the man as a colla...

Le Mossad est considéré aujourd’hui comme l’un des meilleurs services secrets du monde. L’histoire d’Elie Cohen, espion d’exception qui infiltra Damas pendant la guerre de Six jours, demeure l’un des événements fondateurs de sa légende.En juin 1967, la défaite que l'armée israélienne inflige, en un temps record, à trois armées arabes prouve au monde entier l'efficacité des services de renseignements de l’État d'Israël. Derrière cette victoire éclair se cachent l’audace et ...

Once the world's prairies, grasslands, steppes and tundra teemed with massive herds of game: gazelle, wild ass, bison, caribou and antelope. Humans seeking to hunt these large fast-moving herds devised a range of specialised traps that share many characteristics across all continents. Typically consisting of guiding walls or lines of stones leading to an enclosure or trap, game drives were designed for a mass killing. Construction of the game drive, organisation of the hunt and processing ...