Thomas Harding is a former documentary filmmaker and journalist who has written for the Financial Times and The Guardian, among other publications. He founded a television station in Oxford, England, and for many years was an award-winning publisher of a newspaper in West Virginia. Hanns and Rudolf is his first book. He lives in Hampshire, England.
"Hanns & Rudolf packs an extraordinary punch about the nature of
evil, told in a cool, dispassionate voice. As these two lives wrap
around each other, the quality of evil becomes ever clearer, and
more shocking."--Rabbi Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger, West
London Synagogue of British Jew
"Its climax as thrilling as any wartime adventure story, Hanns and
Rudolf is also a moral inquiry into an eternal question: what makes
a man turn to evil? Closely researched and tautly written, this
book sheds light on a remarkable and previously unknown aspect of
the Holocaust - the moment when a Jew and one of the
highest-ranking Nazis came face to face and history held its
breath."--Jonathan Freedland
"Thomas Harding's Hanns and Rudolf not only declines to forget, but
challenges and defies the empty sententiousness characteristic of
those who privately admit to being "tired of hearing about the
Holocaust." In this electrifying account of how a morally driven
British Jewish soldier pursues and captures and brings to trial the
turntail Kommandant of Auschwitz, Thomas Harding commemorates (and,
for the tired, revivifies) a ringing Biblical injunction: Justice,
justice, shalt thou pursue".--Cynthia Ozick
"Written with the verve of a writer and the sure touch of an
historian, Thomas Harding's Hanns and Rudolf is a fascinating,
fresh, and compelling work of history."--Jay Winik, author of April
1865 and The Great Upheaval
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