Perfidy [Illustrated Edition]

by Ben Hecht

Overview

An exploration of the Kastner affair: a conspiracy, a violation of conscience, criminal betrayal.
Picture those early days when the new nation of Israel was being formed in the region of Palestine European Jews had just endured history's ultimate holocaust. Allied governments such as Great Britain had refused to take action to block the trains from carrying thousands of them to certain death. In those final days before the end of the war, the epicenter of the Nazi extermination effort was Hungary. Jews had fled there from Germany and Poland, but they could not outrun the shadow of death. That is the obvious truth, but was there more? Was there collaboration with the enemy that resulted in these murderous acts?
Can you really trust governments and leaders to do what is right and best for those they represent?
As Edmund Burke declared, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." But what happens when those who are trusted as good join forces with evil?
Underlying this story is a bizarre tapestry of deception at the highest levels of government with the lives of many innocents in the balance. The libel trial of Rudolf Kastner, a prominent journalist representing the new government and supported by its Prime Minister David Ben Gurion, establishes the outline of that hidden past, protected by the political interests of some of Israel's early leaders.
A true classic…History that reads like a mystery novel when villains parade themselves as heroes and the real heroes are targets of evil.-Print ed.
Includes 204 photos, plans and maps illustrating The Holocaust

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787202139
Publisher:	Normanby Press
Publication date:	10/27/2016
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	542
File size:	29 MB
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About the Author

Ben Hecht (February 28, 1894 - April 18, 1964) was an Academy Award winning American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist and novelist.
Born to Russian Jewish immigrants in New York City and raised in Racine, Wisconsin, Hecht moved to Chicago in 1910 at the age of 16 and became a renowned journalist, writing for several Chicago newspapers.
He went on to write thirty-five books and some of the most entertaining screenplays and plays in America. He received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories or screenplays of some seventy films. Hecht received the first Academy Award for Original Screenplay, for Underworld (1927). Many of the screenplays he worked on are now considered classics. In total, six of his movie screenplays were nominated for Academy Awards, with two winning.
Hecht became an active Zionist shortly before the Holocaust began in Germany, and wrote articles and plays about the plight of European Jews, such as, We Will Never Die in 1943 and A Flag is Born in 1946. In 1983, 19 years after his death, Ben Hecht was posthumously inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
He died aged 70 in 1964. He was posthumously inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1983.

Born to Russian Jewish immigrants in New York City and raised in Racine, Wisconsin, Hecht moved to Chicago in 1910 at the age of 16 and became a renowned journalist, writing for several Chicago newspapers.
He went on to write thirty-five books and some of the most entertaining screenplays and plays in America. He received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories or screenplays of some seventy films. Hecht received the first Academy Award for Original Screenplay, for Underworld (1927). Many of the screenplays he worked on are now considered classics. In total, six of his movie screenplays were nominated for Academy Awards, with two winning.
Hecht became an active Zionist shortly before the Holocaust began in Germany, and wrote articles and plays about the plight of European Jews, such as, We Will Never Die in 1943 and A Flag is Born in 1946. In 1983, 19 years after his death, Ben Hecht was posthumously inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
He died aged 70 in 1964. He was posthumously inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1983.