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Eichmann in My Hands

A First-Person Account by the Israeli Agent Who Captured Hitler's Chief Executioner

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Eichmann in My Hands

Written by: Peter Z. Malkin, Harry Stein
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
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In 1960 Argentina, a covert team of Israeli agents hunted down the most elusive war criminal alive: Adolf Eichmann, chief architect of the Holocaust. The young spy who tackled Eichmann on a Buenos Aires street - and fought every compulsion to strangle the Obersturmführer then and there - was Peter Z. Malkin. For decades Malkin's identity as Eichmann's captor was kept secret. Here he reveals the entire breathtaking story - from the genesis of the top-secret surveillance operation to the dramatic public capture and smuggling of Eichmann to Israel to stand trial.

The result is a portrait of two men. One, a freedom fighter, intellectually curious and driven to do right. The other, the dutiful Good German who, through his chillingly intimate conversations with Malkin, reveals himself as the embodiment of what Hannah Arendt called "the banality of evil." Singular, riveting, troubling, and gratifying, Eichmann in My Hands "remind[s] of what is at stake: not only justice but our own humanity" (New York Newsday).

Now Malkin's story comes to life on the screen with Oscar Isaac playing the heroic Mossad agent and Academy Award winner Ben Kingsley playing Eichmann in Operation Finale.

©1990 Peter Z. Malkin and Harry Stein (P)2019 Tantor 20th Century Freedom & Security Judaism Military Modern Politics & Government Wars & Conflicts World Espionage Holocaust War Middle East Scary Survival Latin America
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Wow! This was one of the best audiobooks I have ever listened to. A shocking story, told by the very man who captured Eichmann (he wore gloves so that he would not have to touch the vile man’s skin). How they hid him and got him back to Israel was fascinating. Absolutely gripping. I couldn’t stop listening. I am grateful that Peter finally told his story, it was meant to be heard.

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