Name: The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive
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Author: Philippe Sands

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The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive

Type

Physical Book

Author

Philippe Sands

Publisher

Vintage

Year

2022

Language

English

Pages

448

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.1x15.5x2.5 cm

Weight

0.54 kg.

ISBN13

9780525562535

Synopsis "The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive"

A tale of Nazi lives, mass murder, love, Cold War espionage, a mysterious death in the Vatican, and the Nazi escape route to Perón's Argentina,"the Ratline"--from the author of the internationally acclaimed, award-winning East West Street. "Hypnotic, shocking, and unputdownable." --John le Carré, internationally renowned bestselling author Baron Otto von Wächter, a lawyer, husband, and father, was also a senior SS officer and war criminal, indicted for the murder of more than a hundred thousand Poles and Jews. Although he was given a new identity and life via "the Ratline" to Argentina, the escape route taken by thousands of other Nazis, Wächter and his plan were cut short by his mysterious, shocking death in Rome. In the midst of the burgeoning Cold War, was he being recruited by the Americans or by the Soviets--or perhaps both? Or was he poisoned by one side or the other, as his son believes--or by both? With the cooperation of Wächter's son Horst, who believes his father to have been "a good man," award-winning author Philippe Sands draws on a trove of family correspondence to piece together Wächter's extraordinary life before and during the war, his years evading justice, and his sudden, puzzling death. A riveting work of history, The Ratline is part historical detective story, part love story, part family memoir, and part Cold War espionage thriller.

Philippe Sands

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Philippe Sands (London, 1960) is a writer, lawyer, and professor of International Law at University College London. He has participated in prominent international trials held at the Court of Justice of the European Union, the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court, and the European Court of Human Rights. Among the cases he has been involved in are the trial of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, war crimes in Yugoslavia, the genocide in Rwanda, the invasion of Iraq, the tortures at Guantanamo prison, and disputes over the Chagos Archipelago, among others. He is the author of the essays Lawless World, about the illegality of the Iraq war, and Torture Team, about the use of torture by the Bush administration. He is a regular contributor to publications such as Financial Times, The Guardian, The New York Review of Books, and Vanity Fair, and a commentator on CNN, MSNBC, and BBC World Service.

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