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The House on Garibaldi Street (Classics of Espionage)

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Frederick Forsyth, Ken Follett and Robert Ludlum all together couldn't think up a story as amazing as this one. THE HOUSE ON GARIBALDI STREET is called a "Classic of Espionage" and it is. Isser Harel, the Chief of the Israeli Secret Services recounts in detail the amazing capture of Adolf Eichmann, "The Man In The Glass Booth" who was Hitler's senior functionary in creating and carrying out the "Final Solution" and one of the prime creators of the Holocaust.

Eichmann, whose policies and personal behavior condemned six million human beings to death, was captured by Israeli agents, tried in a Court of law, and executed---the only person ever put to death by Judicial process in Israel. Hiding in Argentina under an assumed name, he was eventually caught through a combination of complacency (his family began to use their real name), bizarre coincidence (a neighborhood blind man acted as the informant after his daughter dated Eichmann's son), luck (Eichmann never caught on that he had been discovered), and incredibly hard work (the Israelis painstakingly traced him and tracked him down).

This is true espionage, so real it reads like a novel. Far and away the most taut tale ever written---because it's true.

This is one of the better books that I have read in quite some time. This book is a well detailed coverage of the capture of Adolph Eichman. Eichman was in charge of the final solution. Due to his directives and actions over 6 million Jews were put to death. This writing will show how Eichman was discovered living in Argentina. It will show how Mossad confirmed his identity and then went about planning his actual capture. This is a well written book that shows how well deserved justice was finally delivered to the Jewish people. Isser Harel who was then the head of Mossad adds to the book. Be sure to read this one. It is a keeper.

This book is a must read for those who are fasinated by the shadowy world of espionage. A magnificant account of the capture of the nazi war criminal Adolf Eichman, by the Mossad. Written by the chief Israeli spy master, Isser Harel, it is an in depth discription of how Eichman was found, tracked, captured, smuggled out of Argentina, and brought to trial. Get your hands on this book, it is truely amazing.

After months of search, I found and read this thriller. Here is a true story of daring, resourcefulness, dedication, and diligence in bringing to justice a mass murderer.
How the Mossad did this without beepers, cellphones, pagers, walkie-talkies or other "modern" paraphernalia of the espionage trade makes for non-stop fascinating reading. Not to be missed!!

The kidnapping of Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann by the Israeli Mossad was one of it's most known coups of the 1960's. Eichnmann was one of Nazi Germany's most notorious war criminals, who was personally responsible for the killing of millions of Jews in occupied Europe. This book brings the story of Isser Harel, Israel's legendary intelligence spymaster who was Head of the Mossad at the time of the operation. Harel's story of this complex action is told in a simple and moving way. The editor Shlomo Shpiro, an Israeli intelligence expert, places in his detailed introduction the operation in its overall historical contex. The new books contains, for the first time, the real names of all Mossad personnel involved, as well as the astounding facts about the involvement of West Germany in this operation. A must reading not only to those interested in the hunt for Nazi criminals but also to everyone interested in real, as opposed to fictional, intelligence work.

This book is a well written book by Isser Harel, former leader of the Israeli Mosad. It is a gripping story of the capture and transportation of Adolf Eichman to Israel to stand trial for his "Solution to the problem of the jews" during WW 2. If you ccan find a copy buy it or rent it. I assure you you won't be let down by this true story.

If it hadn't been for Eichmann's son Klaus' indiscete comments to a girlfriend who unbeknownst to him happened to be half Jewish, the Israelis may never have captured the chief technician of the Holocaust. Since the Eichmann family had been living quietly undisturbed in Argentina for 15 years, son Klaus must have been confident that his father would never be detected. Once the Israelis got onto Eichmann they held on tenaciously tracking first his exact whereabouts, his assumed name, his certain identity, and formulating an audacious plan to snatch Eichmann on his way home from work, literally smuggling him out of Argentina to Israel. There he famously stood trial in a bullet proof booth for his crimes against humanity.

What a story! The author of the new forward to the book discloses that PM David Ben Gurion instructed Mossad chief Harel to write the book in order to commemorate Israel's stunning achievement in bringing Eichmann to justice by the people whom he tried to eradicate from existence. Written in 1965, the story was not first published for another ten years in 1975. Although Harel writes in a dry fashion, his voice is the correct one to expose the almost unbearably tense operation to capture Eichmann. If Harel had been a more thrilling author, I am not sure I could have withstood the suspense of reading the story. The tone also fits the idea of the book which is that the reader is sitting front row center for a personal view of the absolute facts of Mossad's plot. The story reads like "Dragnet" on steroids. Isser Harel stars as an Israeli Joe Friday.

The revised book improves the initial publication by giving all of the facts including the true names of the Mossad agents twenty years after the original publication. The preliminary maps and cast of characters also aid the reader in keeping track of those involved, especially the Israeli names, which I could have gotten lost in many times. A great read and a testament to Israel's determination to avenge its people.

This book tells the story of the capture of Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi war criminal and the author of the "Final Solution to the Jewish Problem." It is a real life story as Eichmann was indeed tracked down and apprehended by Israeli agents in Argentina in May of 1960. He was then spirited to Israel where he was tried for war crimes and atrocities committed during World War II. He was executed in May of 1962.

The story is written by Isser Harel, who was then a head of Israeli intelligence services, who planned and supervised the operation in person. The book is written from his point of view reads a bit like minutes from a very long and convoluted meeting. The story jumps around and includes a ton of operational detail. And indeed it was a very long and complex espionage operation, as it spanned over three years start to finish. Harel does include some personal stories of the people involved in the operation - most of them Holocaust survivors who lost many if not all relatives in the Holocaust. Even so the book reads well and is certainly a breathtaking story.

Peter Malkin, the Mossad agent who actually physically captured Eichmann, wrote his own account of the operation in a book called "Eichmann in my hands." Malkin tells a much more personal story without as many operational details (undoubtedly because he was "just" a field agent whereas Harel ran the whole show), but I would say that Malkin's account is a bit more engaging. Both books however, are well worth reading and tell a great story of incredible audacity, courage and adventure.

There are some discrepancies between the two accounts, which are most certainly due to the fact that both authors have changed a lot of facts, names, places, chronology, procedural and operational facts to "cover their tracks" as well as to protect themselves, other field agents and collaborators. That is certainly understandable. And for that reason, it's good to read both accounts to get a better picture of what happened and how.

In conclusion, the capture of Eichmann is an intriguing and a fascinating story - much better than a concocted, fictional spy stories. It is especially satisfying that the end result of the operation was the capture of an individual responsible for deaths of millions of innocent people.

After reading various books on espionage, covert operations and israel intellingence, I haven't found anything so detailed, clearly and methodically narrated. This is a must-read for anyone interested in the holocaust .... The best..

It was an amazing book, that I would recommend for a suspenseful short read. It truly belongs in a class of it's own. The author masterfully displayed the high drama of the confidential capture of Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichman