Guy Walters
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
At the end of World War II, an estimated 30,000 Nazi war criminals fled from justice, including some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi Party. In this exhaustively researched work of history and investigative reporting, journalist Guy Walters gives a comprehensive account of how the most notorious Nazi war criminals escaped justice, how they were pursued, captured or able to remain free until their natural deaths, and how they were assisted...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In 1936, Adolf Hitler welcomed the world to Berlin to attend the Olympic Games. It promised to be not only a magnificent sporting event, but also a grand showcase for the rebuilt Germany. No effort was spared to present the Third Reich as the newest global power. But beneath the glittering surface, the Games of the Eleventh Olympiad of the Modern Era came to act as a crucible for the dark political forces that were gathering, foreshadowing the bloody...
3) Hunting evil
Author
Language
English
Description
"In this exhaustively researched and compellingly written work of World War II history and investigative reporting, journalist and novelist Guy Walters gives a comprehensive account of one of the most shocking and important aspects of the war: how the most notorious Nazi war criminals escaped justice, how they were pursued, captured or able to remain free until their natural deaths and how the Nazis were assisted while they were on the run by "helpers"...
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In early 1942 the Germans opened a top security prisoner of war camp in Lower Silesia for captured Allied airmen. Called Stalag Luft III, the camp soon came to contain some of the most inventive escapers ever known. Their story was immortalized in the film "The Great Escape" but what was the real story behind this classic Hollywood film. Walters investigates the truth behind the fiction and offers a complex re-evaluation of the most iconic escape...