The New York Times bestselling author thrillingly recounts how an underdog driving team beat Hitler's fearsome Silver Arrows in the 1938 Pau Grand Prix.They were the unlikeliest of heroes. Rene Dreyfus, a former top driver on the international racecar circuit, had been banned from the best European teams—and fastest cars—by the mid-1930s because of his Jewish heritage. Charles Weiffenbach, head of the down-on-its-luck automaker Delahaye, was desperately try...

This "fast-paced account" of WWI airmen who escaped Germany's most notorious POW camp is "expertly narrated" by the New York Times bestselling author ( Kirkus, starred review).During World War I, Allied soldiers might avoid death only to find themselves in the abominable conditions of Germany's many prison camps. The most infamous was Holzminden, a land-locked Alcatraz that housed the most escape-prone officers. Its commandant was a boorish tyrant ...

The first complete narrative of the pursuit & capture of SS Nazi officer and Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann, by a New York Times–bestselling author.When the Allies stormed Berlin in the last days of the Third Reich, Adolf Eichmann shed his SS uniform and vanished. Following his escape from two American POW camps, his retreat into the mountains and out of Europe, and his path to an anonymous life in Buenos Aires, his pursuers are a bulldog West German pr...

From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of Hunting Eichmann and The Perfect Mile, a World War II spy adventure set in Norway that draws on top-secret documents and memoirs of the saboteurs.In 1942, the Nazis were racing to complete the first atomic bomb. All they needed was a single, incredibly rare ingredient: heavy water, which was produced solely at Norway’s Vemork plant. Under threat of death, Vemork’s engineers pushed producti...

New York Times–Bestselling Author: An "enthralling" account of the three world-class athletes who became the first runners to break the four-minute mile ( The New York Times Book Review).A San Francisco Chronicle and ESPN Best Book of the YearThere was a time when running the mile in four minutes was believed to be beyond the limits of human foot speed, and in all of sport it was the elusive holy grail. In 1952, after suffe...

Le récit haletant de la traque du criminel nazi le plus recherché...Au lendemain de l'armistice, alors que les Alliés entrent dans Berlin et font arrêter les plus hauts dignitaires nazis, le maître d'œuvre de l'extermination des Juifs et de la solution finale, abandonnant derrière lui son uniforme de SS, disparaît soudain dans la nature. On ne retrouvera Adolf Eichmann que quinze ans plus tard, au terme d'une traque invraisemblable qui, de multip...

Adolf Eichmann was het brein achter de Endlösung, de uitroeiing van de joden in de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Zijn naam stond synoniem voor de wreedheid van de nazi's. Na de oorlog was hij het meest gehate en meest gezochte nazikopstuk. Vijftien jaar lang wist hij aan zijn belagers te ontsnappen. Uiteindelijk vluchtte hij met zijn gezin naar Argentinië. In mei 1960 werd Eichmann daar tijdens een geheime operatie van de Mossad, de Israëlische geheime dienst, in de kraag gevat en naar Israël afgev...

The Roaring Twenties in New York was a time of exuberant ambition, free-flowing optimism, an explosion of artistic expression in the age of Prohibition. New York was the city that embodied the spirit and strength of a newly powerful America.In 1924, in the vibrant heart of Manhattan, a fierce rivalry was born. Two architects, William Van Alen and Craig Severance (former friends and successful partners, but now bitter adversaries), set out to imprint their individual marks on the gr...

A thrilling spy mission, a moving Holocaust story, and a first-class work of narrative nonfiction. In 1945, at the end of World War II, Adolf Eichmann, the head of operations for the Nazis' Final Solution, walked into the mountains of Germany and vanished from view. Sixteen years later, an elite team of spies captured him at a bus stop in Argentina and smuggled him to Israel, resulting in one of the century's most important trials -- one that cemented the Holocaust in the public imaginatio...

That Monday afternoon, in high-school gyms across America, kids were battling for the only glory American culture seems to want to dispense to the young these days: sports glory. But at Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta, California, in a gear-cluttered classroom, a different type of “cool” was brewing. A physics teacher with a dream – the first public high-school teacher ever to win a MacArthur Genius Award -- had rounded up a band of high-I.Q. students who wanted to put their tec...

A stunning adventure involving Nazis, nukes, fighting, failure, and everyday heroes, from the author of the award-winning The Nazi Hunters.Neal Bascomb delivers another nail-biting work of nonfiction for young adults in this incredible true story of spies and survival.The invasion begins at night, with German cruisers slipping into harbor, and soon the Nazis occupy all of Norway. They station soldiers throughout the country. They institute martial rule. And at Vemork, an i...

»Neal Bascombs bok Operation tungt vatten är något så ovanligt som en noggrant efterforskad fackbok som mest liknar en välskriven spänningsroman … Bascomb lyckas fantastiskt bra. Med hjälp av rapporter, dagböcker och intervjuer skildrar han närgånget och personligt de ibland extrema umbäranden som sabotörerna uthärdade … en både spännande och läsvärd bok, som även passar läsare utan större militärhistoriskt intresse.« Tidningen Militär Historia1942 fruktar de allie...