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The Brigade (eBook, ePUB)

An Epic Story of Vengeance, Salvation, and WWII

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

November 1944. The British government finally agrees to send a brigade of 5,000 Jewish volunteers from Palestine to Europe to fight the German army. But when the war ends and the soldiers witness firsthand the horrors their people have suffered in the concentration camps, the men launch a brutal and calculating campaign of vengeance, forming secret squads to identify, locate, and kill Nazi officers in hiding. Their own ferocity threatens to overwhelm them until a fortuitous encounter with an orphaned girl sets the men on a course of actionrescuing Jewish war orphans and transporting them to Palestinethat will not only change their lives but also help create a nation and forever alter the course of world history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780061980848
• Artikelnr.: 38003628

Autorenporträt

Howard Blum is the author of the New York Times bestseller and Edgar Awardwinner American Lightning, as well as Wanted!, The Gold of Exodus, Gangland, The Floor of Heaven, In the Enemy's House, and most recently, The Spy Who Knew Too Much. Blum is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. While at the New York Times, he was twice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. He is the father of three children, and lives in Connecticut.