Bøger af Thomas Harding

Revealing the story of Germany through the inhabitants of one small wooden building: a nobleman farmer, a Jewish family, a renowned Nazi composer, a widow and her children, a Stasi informant, this book moves from the late nineteenth century to the present day, from the devastation of two world wars to the dividing and reuniting of a nation.

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"In this first biography, Thomas Harding provides a full, unvarnished, and at times difficult history of this complex and fascinating character. Throughout his long career, he was written about in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time Magazine, Vanity Fair, and other publications. Was he, as described by some, the "greatest salesperson," "the world's best networker," "the publisher's publisher," and "a great intellectual"? Was his lifelong effort to be the world's most famous host a cover for his desperate loneliness? Who, in fact, was the real George Weidenfeld and how did he rise so successfully within the ranks of New York and London society?"

Can a series of notebooks smuggled from the year 2050 change the past to save the future?

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The “compelling,” untold story of the man who captured and brought to trial Rudolf Höss—one of Nazi Germany’s most notorious war criminals and subject of the Oscar-nominated film The Zone of Interest—“fascinates and shocks” (The Washington Post).May 1945. In the aftermath of the Second World War, the first British War Crimes Investigation Team is assembled to hunt down the senior Nazi officials responsible for the greatest atrocities the world has ever seen. One of the lead investigators is Lieutenant Hanns Alexander, a German Jew who is now serving in the British Army. Rudolf Höss is his most elusive target. As Kommandant of Auschwitz, Höss not only oversaw the murder of more than one million men, women, and children; he was the man who perfected Hitler’s program of mass extermination. Höss is on the run across a continent in ruins, the one man whose testimony can ensure justice at Nuremberg. Hanns and Rudolf reveals for the very first time the full, exhilarating account of Höss’s capture, an encounter with repercussions that echo to this day. Moving from the Middle Eastern campaigns of World War I to bohemian Berlin in the 1920s to the horror of the concentration camps and the trials in Belsen and Nuremberg, it tells the story of two German men—one Jewish, one Catholic—whose lives diverged, and intersected, in an astonishing way. This is “one of those true stories that illuminates a small justice in the aftermath of the Holocaust, an event so huge and heinous that there can be no ultimate justice” (New York Daily News).

It's a story that has been described in the press and by the leading detective (now retired) as the `greatest whodunnit' of recent years: an extraordinary tale of isolation, deception, espionage and brutal violence, stretching from the quiet streets of north London to the Palace of Westminster and beyond.

'Buy it. Read it. Act on it. Your world will never be the same again.' Charles Secrett, Director, Friends of the Earth

Beginning on the day of Kadian's death, and continuing to the one-year anniversary, and beyond, this title presents a record of grief in its rawest form, and of a mind in shock and questioning a strange new reality.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE JQ WINGATE PRIZE 2015SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDThe true story of the Jewish investigator who pursued and captured one of Nazi Germany's most notorious war criminals.

Et fascinerende og skelsættende indblik i jagten på verdenshistoriens største massemorder.I det første kaos efter Anden Verdenskrig eksisterede der ikke nogen strategi for tilfangetagelsen og retsforfølgelsen af de skyldige; og mange af krigens forbrydere havde held til at flygte.En af dem; der var ansvarlig for at komme til bunds i Naziregimets krigsforbrydelser; var den tyskfødte britiske jøde Hanns Alexander. Under sin medvirken i efterforskningen i koncentrationslejren Belsen blev han så chokeret over de rædsler; der var gået for sig; at han besjælet af en stærk trang til retfærdighed begyndte at tage ud på efterforskningstogter som selvbestaltet Nazijæger. Inden længe havde hans metode vist sig frugtbar; og han havde held til at opspore og anholde adskillige krigsforbrydere. Siden blev han rekrutteret af den britiske efterretningstjeneste som leder af en efterforskningsstyrke med det formål at stille de højest rangerende tyske nazister for retten.Det var denne mand; der endte med at opspore og tilfangetage verdenshistoriens største massemorder; kommandanten af Auschwitz; Rudolf Höss.I den skelsættende bog Hanns og Rudolf fortæller forfatteren (en slægtning til Alexander) historien bag to bemærkelsesværdige mænd:nbsp; Den magtfulde Kommandant af Auschwitz – og hans jødiske hævner.Et fascinerende og nuanceret dobbeltportræt af to mænd og deres vej til de vidt forskellige roller; som de kom til at spille i Anden Verdenskrig.Bogen skildrer ikke blot Höss’ flugt og tilfangetagelse; men kommer også langt ind under huden på det menneske; som iværksatte verdenshistoriens største folkemord; samtidig med at han levede et harmonisk familieliv med sin kone og børn i en villa; der lå så tæt på de store krematorier; at huset var indhyllet i røgen fra resterne af de mange jøder; der endte deres dage i Auschwitz.