The One Man

Andrew Gross
Minotaur Books • 2016

1944. Physics professor Alfred Mendl is separated from his family and sent to the men’s camp, where all of his belongings are tossed on a roaring fire. His books, his papers, his life’s work. The Nazi...Nazis have no idea what they have just destroyed. And without that physical record, Alfred is one of only two people in the world with his particular knowledge. Knowledge that could start a war, or end it.Nathan Blum works behind a desk at an intelligence office in Washington, DC, but he longs to contribute to the war effort in a more meaningful way, and he has a particular skill set the U.S. suddenly needs. Nathan is fluent in German and Polish, he is Semitic looking, and he proved his scrappiness at a young age when he escaped from the Polish ghetto. Now, the government wants him to take on the most dangerous assignment of his life: Nathan must sneak into Auschwitz, on a mission to find and escape with one man.This historical thriller from New York Times bestseller Andrew Gross is a deeply affecting, unputdownable series of twists and turns through a landscape at times horrifyingly familiar but still completely compelling.
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Môže byť jeden muž dôležitejší ako všetci ostatní? Názov: Jediný muž Autor: Andrew Gross Rok vydania v originálnom jazyku: 2016 Žáner: dramatické, vojnové, thriller, historické, fikcia “No tragedy is greater than that of a single person who is afraid to do the right thing.” Jediný muž je strhujúci príbeh, ktorý sa odohráva na pozadí druhej … Čítať ďalej Jediny muž

Pre slovenského čitateľa tejto knihy je potešiteľné, že sa americký autor nechal inšpirovať aj skutočným príbehom Alfréda Wetzlera a Rudolfa Vrbu. Dokonca úvodné kapitoly románového príbehu patria priamo týmto dvom historickým postavám a ich úteku z Osvienčimu.

1944. Physics professor Alfred Mendl is separated from his family and sent to the men’s camp, where all of his belongings are tossed on a roaring fire. His books, his papers, his life’s work. The Nazis have no idea what they have just destroyed. And without that physical record, Alfred is one of only two people in the world with his particular knowledge. Knowledge that could start a war, or end it.

Nathan Blum works behind a desk at an intelligence office in Washington, DC, but he longs to contribute to the war effort in a more meaningful way, and he has a particular skill set the U.S. suddenly needs. Nathan is fluent in German and Polish, he is Semitic looking, and he proved his scrappiness at a young age when he escaped from the Polish ghetto. Now, the government wants him to take on the most dangerous assignment of his life: Nathan must sneak into Auschwitz, on a mission to find and escape with one man.

This historical thriller from New York Times bestseller Andrew Gross is a deeply affecting, unputdownable series of twists and turns through a landscape at times horrifyingly familiar but still completely compelling.