Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography

PEN Literary Award Finalist

National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist

New York Times Notable Book

Washington Post Notable Book

Boston Globe Best Book of the Year

The award-winning author of Villa Air-Bel returns with a painstakingly researched, revelatory biography of Svetlana Stalin, a woman fated to live her life in the shadow of one of history’s most monstrous dictators–her father, Josef Stalin.

Born in the early years of the Soviet Union, Svetlana Stalin spent her youth inside the walls of the Kremlin. Communist Party privilege protected her from the mass starvation and purges that haunted Russia, but she did not escape tragedy–the loss of everyone she loved, including her mother, two brothers, aunts and uncles, and a lover twice her age, deliberately exiled to Siberia by her father.

As she gradually learned about the extent of her father’s brutality after his death, Svetlana could no longer keep quiet and in 1967 shocked the world by defecting to the United States–leaving her two children behind. But although she was never a part of her father’s regime, she could not escape his legacy. Her life in America was fractured; she moved frequently, married disastrously, shunned other Russian exiles, and ultimately died in poverty in Wisconsin.

With access to KGB, CIA, and Soviet government archives, as well as the close cooperation of Svetlana’s daughter, Rosemary Sullivan pieces together Svetlana’s incredible life in a masterful account of unprecedented intimacy. Epic in scope, it’s a revolutionary biography of a woman doomed to be a political prisoner of her father’s name. Sullivan explores a complicated character in her broader context without ever losing sight of her powerfully human story, in the process opening a closed, brutal world that continues to fascinate us.

Illustrated with photographs.

Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept…

Using new technology, recently discovered documents and sophisticated investigative techniques, an international team–led by an obsessed retired FBI agent–has finally solved the mystery that has haunted generations since World War II: Who betrayed Anne Frank and her family? And why?

Over thirty million people have read The Diary of a Young Girl, the journal teen-aged Anne Frank kept while living in an attic with her family and four other people in Amsterdam during World War II, until the Nazis arrested them and sent them to a concentration camp. But despite the many works–journalism, books, plays and novels–devoted to Anne’s story, none has ever conclusively explained how these eight people managed to live in hiding undetected for over two years–and who or what finally brought the Nazis to their door.

With painstaking care, retired FBI agent Vincent Pankoke and a team of indefatigable investigators pored over tens of thousands of pages of documents–some never before seen–and interviewed scores of descendants of people familiar with the Franks. Utilizing methods developed by the FBI, the Cold Case Team painstakingly pieced together the months leading to the infamous arrest–and came to a shocking conclusion.

The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation is the riveting story of their mission. Rosemary Sullivan introduces us to the investigators, explains the behavior of both the captives and their captors and profiles a group of suspects. All the while, she vividly brings to life wartime Amsterdam: a place where no matter how wealthy, educated, or careful you were, you never knew whom you could trust.

Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Usando una nueva tecnologia, documentos descubiertos recientemente y sofisticadas tecnicas de investigacion, un equipo internacional -dirigido por un obsesionado agente retirado del FBI- finalmente ha resuelto el misterio que ha perseguid a generaciones desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial: ?Quien traiciono a Ana Frank y a su familia? ?Y por que?

Mas de treinta millones de personas han leido El diario de Ana Frank, el diario que la adolescente Ana Frank escribio mientras vivia en un atico con su familia en Amsterdam durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial hasta que los nazis los arrestaron y enviaron a Ana a su muerte en un campo de concentracion. Pero, a pesar de los muchos trabajos -periodisticos, libros, obras de teatro y novelas- dedicados a la historia de Ana, ninguno ha conseguid explicar con certeza como los Frank y otras cuatro personas se las arreglaron para vivir escondidos y no ser descubiertos por mas de dos anos ni como, o que, llevo finalmente a los nazis a su puerta.

Con minucioso cuidado, Vincent Pankoke, agente retirado del FBI, y un equipo de incansables investigadores estudiaron con meticulosidad decenas de miles de paginas de documentos, algunos nunca antes vistos, y entrevistaron a personas familiarizadas con los Frank. Utilizando metodos desarrollados por el FBI, el equipo encargado del caso reconstruyo con detalle los meses previos al infame arresto y llego a una conclusion.

Using new technology, recently discovered documents and sophisticated investigative techniques, an international team–led by an obsessed former FBI agent–has finally solved the mystery that has haunted generations since World War II: Who betrayed Anne Frank and her family? And why?

Over thirty million people have read The Diary of a Young Girl, the journal teen-aged Anne Frank kept while living in an attic with her family in Amsterdam during World War II, until the Nazis arrested them and sent Anne to her death in a concentration camp. But despite the many works–journalism, books, plays and novels–devoted to Anne’s story, none has ever conclusively explained how the Franks and four other people managed to live in hiding undetected for over two years–and who or what finally brought the Nazis to their door.

With painstaking care, former FBI agent Vincent Pankoke and a team of indefatigable investigators pored over tens of thousands of pages of documents–some never-before-seen–and interviewed scores of descendants of people involved, both Nazi sympathizers and resisters, familiar with the Franks. Utilizing methods developed by the FBI, the Cold Case Team painstakingly pieced together the months leading to the Franks’ arrest–and came to a shocking conclusion.

El suplementario PDF complementario acompana al audiolibro.