The Nazi Hunters: How a team of of Spies and Survivors Captured the World’s Most Notorious Nazi -- ESSENTIAL

Bascomb, Neal The Nazi Hunters: How a team of of Spies and Survivors Captured the World’s Most Notorious Nazi, 215 pages, 2013. Arthur A Levine Books; $16.99. Language: G; Violence: PG; Mature Content: PG. 

 Adolph Eichmann, a high ranking officer in Hitler’s S.S., was responsible for organizing and implementing the extermination of 6 million Jews.  He disappeared at the end of World War Two.  Sixteen years later, in Buenos Aires Argentina a teenage girl and her blind father discovered his whereabouts.  This started a concerted effort by the Israeli secret service to capture him and bring him to trial.

This non-fiction read is well written, with enough photographs and artifacts to connect the reader, and a wonderful narrative structure that makes you forget you’re reading non-fiction.  Although it deals with what could be a graphic subject, even the concentration camp descriptions are handled tastefully and with little gore.   MS HS ESSENTIAL Lisa Librarian