Lost Hero: The Mystery of Raoul Wallenberg [Hardcover]

Frederick E. Werbell (Author), Thurston Clarke (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 238 pages
• Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill; 1ST edition (January 1982)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0070694109
• ISBN-13: 978-0070694101
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,610,218 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Lost Hero: the Mystery of Raoul Wallenberg, December 26, 2008

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K. Franklin - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lost Hero (Paperback)

This is an excellent addition to my collection of Wallenberg books. It is written a detailed historical style; most books I have found are geared toward the junior or High school student.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars From the dustjacket flap . . . . ., October 13, 2007

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LemonspredBooks (Manvel, TX, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lost Hero: The Mystery of Raoul Wallenberg (Hardcover)

In 1944 Raoul Wallenberg, a businessman, playboy and member of one of Sweden's most wealthy and aristocratic families, volunteered to go to Budapest as a diplomat for the purpose of saving Hungarian Jews from Hitler's Final Solution. During the next six months, through espionage, bribery, threats, and, when all else failed, stirring acts of personal courage, he managed to rescue tens of thousands of Jews.

Lost Hero describes Wallenberg's metamorphosis from diplomat to guerilla fighter; his alliance with the beautiful Baroness Kemeny, the wife of one of Hungary's most prominent fascists; his frequent duels with Adolf Eichmann over Jewish lives; and the many occasions on which he personally rescued individual Jews from Eichmann's death trains. Wallenberg's crusade was suddenly halted when, after a mysterious meeting with Soviet officers, he vanished. Repeated sightings of him in the Gulag since the war have led many to believe that he is still alive.

Through sources exclusive to the authors, Lost Hero discloses for the first time the truth about Wallenberg's disappearance and the international scandal and cover-up surrounding the Wallenberg affair, and reveals at last what really happened to the imprisoned Raoul Wallenberg in Russia.