Already acclaimed in England as "first-rate" (The Sunday Times); “a model of meticulous; courageous and path-breaking scholarship"(Literary Review); and "absorbing and thoroughly gripping… deserves a lasting place among histories of the war.†(The Sunday Telegraph); Hunting Evil is the first complete and definitive account of how the Nazis escaped and were pursued and captured -- or managed to live long lives as fugitives. At the end of the Second World War; an estimated 30;000 Nazi war criminals fled from justice; including some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi Party. Many of them have names that resonate deeply in twentieth-century history -- Eichmann; Mengele; Martin Bormann; and Klaus Barbie -- not just for the monstrosity of their crimes; but also because of the shadowy nature of their post-war existence; holed up in the depths of Latin America; always one step ahead of their pursuers. Aided and abetted by prominent people throughout Europe; they hid in foreboding castles high in the Austrian alps; and were taken in by shady Argentine secret agents. The attempts to bring them to justice are no less dramatic; featuring vengeful Holocaust survivors; inept politicians; and daring plots to kidnap or assassinate the fugitives. In this exhaustively researched and compellingly written work of World War II history and investigative reporting; journalist and novelist Guy Walters gives a comprehensive account of one of the most shocking and important aspects of the war: how the most notorious Nazi war criminals escaped justice; how they were pursued; captured or able to remain free until their natural deaths and how the Nazis were assisted while they were on the run by "helpers" ranging from a Vatican bishop to a British camel doctor; and even members of Western intelligence services. Based on all new interviews with Nazi hunters and former Nazis and intelligence agents; travels along the actual escape routes; and archival research in Germany; Britain; the United States; Austria; and Italy; Hunting Evil authoritatively debunks much of what has previously been understood about Nazis and Nazi hunters in the post war era; including myths about the alleged “Spider†and “Odessa†escape networks and the surprising truth about the world's most legendary Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal. From its haunting chronicle of the monstrous mass murders the Nazis perpetrated and the murky details of their postwar existence to the challenges of hunting them down; Hunting Evil is a monumental work of nonfiction written with the pacing and intrigue of a thriller.
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful. Snakes on Scanners! Shields Up!By Dr. Frank StechRoy Godson and James J. Wirtz (Editors); Strategic Denial and Deception: The Twenty-First Century Challenge. Transaction Pub; ISBN: 0765801132; (March 2002).This new volume signals a post Cold War revival of attention and interest in deception; a revival growing in Washington since the mid-1990s. Experiences with the deceptions of the Iraqis; Somalis; Serbs; North Koreans; various transnational terrorists; and narco-criminals have revived awareness in the United States that deception is among the time-honored techniques of asymmetrical warfare; capable of allowing the weaker; but deceptive opponent to surprise; wound; or even defeat a far stronger adversary. Attention to deception and counter-deception; focused in the 1980s on the Soviet threat; has revived to address the new post Cold War threats; what one observer called the "snakes in the grass." Attempts to bury deception inside the befuddled complexity of "information operations" are failing: deception is back; it's a problem; and people are doing something about it.Academic conferences; research journal articles; and scholarly volumes of analysis and theory such as this one signify that deception and counter-deception; until recently buried in the classified world; limited to informal intelligence agency committees and think tank working groups; have again become quasi-respectable; if not altogether mainstream; stand-alone concerns in the American national security structure. The informal committees are becoming formally chartered; working groups turning into boxes on organizational charts; and analysts are going back to schools to catch up on theory; tactics; techniques; and procedures. Policy makers are pressed to take sides: for or against using deception; needing or rejecting the need for counter-deception. More conferences; journal articles; and volumes are on undoubtedly on the way. The participants all need to read this book.On the bow-wave of this coming swell of deception concern is Godson and Wirtz's excellent statement of the problems of deception; its challenges to U.S. intelligence; the success and failure of deceptions by the various snakes under various conditions; and the prospects for detecting and deflecting deception. The posture they describe is wholly defensive: the snakes will deceive U.S. intelligence and the national security policy and decision makers. There is no offensive outlook on deception here; no argument that the U.S. needs a capability to cloak the employment its instruments of national security.Like the starships of the Star Trek Federation; we do shields; deceptive cloaking is only for the Bad Guys. Brigadier General Walter Jajko's incisive commentary in this volume explains exactly why this is; and it likely not to change: the United States simply does not know how to employ deception for national security; and is effectively organized culturally; socially; traditionally; and organizationally not to learn. In the U.S. the practicing field of deception it seems has been yielded to advertising; politics; business; and other criminal enterprises.Godson and Wirtz's chapters lay out the defensive challenge to U.S. national security. Their authors are flagship analysts and theorists of deception's problems; with a healthy leavening of reality-checking national security insiders among them: Abram Shulsky; Richards Heuer; Barton Whaley; M.R.D. Foot; J. Bowyer Bell; Lynn Hansen; Paul Rossa; James Bruce. This volume is a foundation for understanding what we are up against and what we can do about it.0 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Made the difference in a college courseBy EricThis is being used as a textbook for a class I am taking. I am still a little old school and need the print edition. Thanks for such quick shipping. It made all the difference.4 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Review of Strategic Denial and DeceptionBy Elliott HurwitzThis is a mediocre book. First; it resembles a handbook; teaching practitioners how to conduct DD (this acronym really exists). Second; many authors are in the "neo-con" school of intelligence officers; along with Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith.It's somewhat deceiving for a book to represent DD when the Reagan-era "Team B" school from which they graduated has been discredited.
