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COM.ONIXSUITE.9781611453812 03 01 Skyhorse Publishing 01 GCOI 60239100020570 01 SKU 611381 02 161145381X 03 9781611453812 15 9781611453812 BC 1 A01 Wallenberg, Raoul Raoul Wallenberg <strong>Raoul Wallenberg</strong> was born in 1912 and grew up as part of a distinguished banking family in Sweden. At his grandfather’s behest, he spent much of his young adulthood abroad and received a degree in architecture from the University of Michigan in 1935. After his grandfather’s death in 1937, Wallenberg returned to Europe. He was approached in 1944 to oversee a rescue operation of Hungarian Jews being deported to the death camps by Adolf Eichmann. By the time of his arrest by the Soviet army on January 17, 1945, roughly six months later, Wallenberg had helped to save the lives of over 100,000 people. 01 eng 304 00 304 03 03 0 03 BIO008000 01 The best way to hear the story of Raoul Wallenberg is through his own words. Put together from three different collections, <em>Letters and Dispatches</em> is the most thorough book of Wallenberg’s writings and letters. With his disappearance behind the Iron Curtain in January of 1945, he became tragically mysterious. While the story of Wallenberg has been told many times over, the best way we can possibly understand and relate to him is through his written word, which <em>Letters and Dispatches</em> has in full. 02 An extraordinarily thorough collection of the Swedish diplomat's last writings and dispatches before his tragic... http://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/book/?GCOI=60239100020570 Arcade Publishing 01 Skyhorse Publishing 20110418 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 0.9 in 08 13 oz 07 6300065 National Book Company, Inc. http://www.wwnorton.com 02 WORLD 02 Y 20120418 20 20110418 12 01 02 LONG 02 19.95 USD