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Raoul Wallenberg : the biography / Ingrid Carlberg ; with an introduction by Kofi A. Annan ; translated from the Swedish by Ebba Segerberg.
By: Carlberg, Ingrid [author.]
.Contributor(s): Segerberg, Ebba [translator.].Publisher: London : MacLehose Press, 2016Description: 639 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780857053282.Other title: Raoul Wallenberg : the heroic life of the man who saves thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust.Subject(s): Wallenberg, Raoul, 1912-1947 | Diplomats -- Sweden -- Biography | Diplomats -- Hungary -- Biography | World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Hungary | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- HungaryDDC classification: 920 Summary: Raoul Wallenberg is one of the Second World War's greatest heroes. His courageous actions in Budapest at the height of the Holocaust saved countless lives, and ultimately cost him his own. Though made an honorary citizen of Australia, the U.S.A. and elsewhere, Wallenberg's achievements remain little known. Ingrid Carlberg draws on revelatory research to narrate the story of his heroic life, and to navigate with wisdom and sensitivity the truth about his mysterious death.
| Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 920 WAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 012072 |
First published in Swedish in 2012.
Raoul Wallenberg is one of the Second World War's greatest heroes. His courageous actions in Budapest at the height of the Holocaust saved countless lives, and ultimately cost him his own. Though made an honorary citizen of Australia, the U.S.A. and elsewhere, Wallenberg's achievements remain little known. Ingrid Carlberg draws on revelatory research to narrate the story of his heroic life, and to navigate with wisdom and sensitivity the truth about his mysterious death.
Translated from Swedish.