The one man / Andrew Gross.
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TextPublisher: London : Macmillan, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: 415 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781509808663Subject(s): Auschwitz (Concentration camp) -- Fiction | World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany -- Fiction | Concentration camp inmates -- Fiction | Undercover operations -- Fiction | Escapes -- FictionGenre/Form: Thrillers (Fiction). | Historical fiction. DDC classification: 813.6 Summary: 1944: Physics professor Alfred Mendl is separated from his family and sent to the men's camp, where all of his belongings are tossed on a roaring fire. His books, his papers, his life's work. The Nazis have no idea what they have just destroyed. And without that physical record, Alfred is one of only two people in the world with his particular knowledge. Knowledge that could start a war, or end it. Nathan Blum works behind a desk at an intelligence office in Washington, DC, but he longs to contribute to the war effort in a more meaningful way, and he has a particular skill set the U.S. suddenly needs. Nathan is fluent in German and Polish, he is Semitic looking, and he proved his scrappiness at a young age when he escaped from the Polish ghetto. Now the government wants him to sneak into Auschwitz and escape with one man...
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Adult fiction | F GRO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 07/05/2024 | AL4200020269XB |
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1944: Physics professor Alfred Mendl is separated from his family and sent to the men's camp, where all of his belongings are tossed on a roaring fire. His books, his papers, his life's work. The Nazis have no idea what they have just destroyed. And without that physical record, Alfred is one of only two people in the world with his particular knowledge. Knowledge that could start a war, or end it. Nathan Blum works behind a desk at an intelligence office in Washington, DC, but he longs to contribute to the war effort in a more meaningful way, and he has a particular skill set the U.S. suddenly needs. Nathan is fluent in German and Polish, he is Semitic looking, and he proved his scrappiness at a young age when he escaped from the Polish ghetto. Now the government wants him to sneak into Auschwitz and escape with one man...
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