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The Ratline audiobook
- By: Philippe Sands
- Narrator: Philippe Sands
- Category: Biography & Autobiography, Criminals & Outlaws
- Length: 13 hours 53 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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The Ratline Audiobook Summary
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, Austrian lawyer, husband, father, high Nazi official, senior SS officer, former governor of Galicia during the war, creator and overseer of the Krakow ghetto, indicted after as a war criminal for the mass murder of more than 100,000 Poles, hunted by the Soviets, the Americans, the British, by Simon Wiesenthal, on the run for three years, from 1945 to 1948 . . .
Philippe Sands pieces together, in riveting detail, Wächter’s extraordinary, shocking story. Given full access to the Wächter family archives–journals, diaries, tapes, and more–and with the assistance of the Wächters’ son Horst, who believes his father to have been a “good man,” Sands writes of Wächter’s rise through the Nazi high command, his “blissful” marriage and family life as their world was brought to ruin, and his four-year flight to escape justice–to the Tirol, to Rome, and the Vatican; given a new identity, on his way to a new life via “the Ratline” to Perón’s Argentina, the escape route taken by Eichmann, Mengele, and thousands of other Nazis. Wächter’s escape was cut short by his mysterious, shocking death in Rome, in the midst of the burgeoning Cold War (was he being recruited in postwar Italy by the Americans and the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps or by the Soviet NKVD or by both; or was he poisoned by one side or the other, as his son believes–or by both?) . . .
An extraordinary discovery, told up-close through access to a trove of family correspondence between Wächter and his wife–part historical detective story, part love story, part family memoir, part Cold War espionage thriller.
“Breathtaking, gripping, shattering.” –Elif Shafak
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The Ratline Full Details
| Narrator | Philippe Sands |
| Length | 13 hours 53 minutes |
| Author | Philippe Sands |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | April 30, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780593349472 |
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The publisher of the The Ratline is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: true crime books, true crime, mysteries, history books for adults, books for men, crime, books best sellers, european history, war, books best sellers 2020, history book, historical, culture, world war ii, nonfiction books, propaganda, motivational, inspirational, society, Germany, biography, true stories, wwii, true story, hitler, history books, history, life and death, fugitive, death book, nazi, nazis, the death of stalin, stephen fry, plunder, the holocaust, banned books, grandpa gifts from granddaughter, philip sands, Biography & Autobiography, Criminals & Outlaws, Political Science, Genocide & War Crimes, History, Holocaust The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, Criminals & Outlaws
Additional info
The publisher of the The Ratline is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780593349472.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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