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The Einstein Vendetta: Hitler, Mussolini, and a true story of murder
Brought to you by Penguin. From the Sunday Times bestselling author of HANNS AND RUDOLF, THE HOUSE BY THE LAKE and BLOOD ON THE PAGE, pre-order the gripping story of an unsolved triple-murder which took place against the extraordinary background of Nazi-occupied Florence during World War Two . . . Florence, August 1944. Fifteen miles south-east of the city, a unit of German soldiers arrive at Il Focardo, the home of Robert Einstein. Nearby, Robert is hiding out in the Tuscan countryside, while his wife and two daughters remain in the villa. The Germans knock hard. The owner of the house, Nina Einstein, answers the door. ‘Where is your husband, Robert Einstein?’, she is asked, ‘Where is Robert Einstein, the first cousin of the world-famous Albert Einstein?’ Twelve hours later, Nina, Luce and Anna-Maria are brutally murdered. The following day, British troops arrive in the area, pushing the German forces away from Florence to the north. A murder investigation is launched but the perpetrators never found. In The Einstein Vendetta, Thomas Harding recounts the story of an unthinkable crime, one that unspools to reveal Italy’s brutal wartime history – its fall to fascism, antisemitism and bitter partisanship – and a family’s search for justice. Vividly told, drawing on previously unpublished archival sources and first-hand accounts, Harding threads history and detective story to build an unquiet, haunting testimony. Praise for Thomas Harding: Hanns and Rudolf 'A gripping thriller, an unspeakable crime, an essential history' John le Carré 'Thomas Harding has shed intriguing new light on the strange poison of Nazism, and one of its most lethal practitioners... Meticulously researched and deeply felt' Ben Macintyre, Times Book of the Week 'Fascinating and moving...This is a remarkable book, which deserves a wide readership' Max Hastings, Sunday Times © Thomas Harding 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025
Thomas Harding (Author), TBD (Narrator)
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[German] - Hanns und Rudolf: Der deutsche Jude und die Jagd nach dem Kommandanten von Auschwitz Rudo
Thomas Harding kannte seinen Großonkel Hanns Alexander als einen freundlichen Mann mit viel Familiensinn, der ein bürgerliches Leben als Bankangestellter in London geführt hatte, sich für die Synagoge engagierte und gerne Witze machte. Seine jüdische Familie stammte aus Berlin und war in den 1930er-Jahren in letzter Minute nach England ins Exil entkommen. Das wussten alle. Ansonsten wurde über den Krieg nicht gesprochen. Erst nach dem Tod von Hanns Alexander erfuhr Harding, dass er ein Nazijäger gewesen war. Er hatte Rudolf Höß, den nach Kriegsende untergetauchten Kommandanten von Auschwitz Rudolf Höß, im Alleingang in seinem Versteck auf einem Bauernhof in Norddeutschland aufgespürt und so dafür gesorgt, dass ihm der Prozess gemacht wurde. 1947 wird Höß im früheren KZ-Auschwitz hingerichtet. Thomas Harding hat mit seinem Buch »Hanns und Rudolf« eine Doppelbiografie über zwei Menschen – Rudolf Höß und Hanns Alexander – geschrieben, die nicht unterschiedlicher sein können und deren Schicksale dramatisch miteinander verbunden sind. »Thomas Harding ist es gelungen, eine sehr lesbare, faktenreiche Doppel-Biografie zu schreiben, die Deutschland aus ganz konträren Seiten beleuchtet. Hier eine liberale, wohlhabende jüdische Familie Alexander; da eine abgestumpfte, gewalttätige und streng katholische Familie Höß. Harding ging der Frage nach, wie ein normaler Mann zu einem der größten Massenmörder in der Geschichte wird. Schließlich traf er die richtige Entscheidung, nicht einen Helden und einen Schurken, sondern zwei Menschen zu porträtieren: Hanns und Rudolf. Deren so verschiedene Lebensläufe erzählt er parallel, spannend und aus nächster Nähe – auf der Grundlage historischer Unterlagen, Familienbriefe und Interviews, unter anderem mit Höß' Tochter.« (NDR-Info)
Thomas Harding (Author), Patrick Twinem, Sebastian Dunkelberg (Narrator)
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Legacy: One Family, a Cup of Tea and the Company that Took On the World
A panoramic new history of modern Britain, as told through the story of one extraordinary family, and one groundbreaking company. In the early 1800s Lehmann Gluckstein and his family escaped the pogroms of Eastern Europe and made their way to Whitechapel in the East End of London. There, starting with nothing, they worked tirelessly to pull themselves out of poverty, creating a small tobacco factory that quickly grew to become the largest catering company in the world: J. Lyons. For over a century, Lyons was everywhere. Its restaurants and corner houses were on every high street, its coffee and tea in every cup, its products in every home. The company transformed the way we eat, drink and are entertained - democratising luxury and globalising our tastes. A story of the virtue of hard work, perseverance and an indomitable spirit in the face of repeated obstacles. "Endlessly fascinating and hard to put down. I read it all in one sitting, enjoying the colour and grandeur ... Full of character and characters, this is a tour de force." JULIA NEUBERGER
Thomas Harding (Author), Mark Meadows (Narrator)
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June 2006: Allan Chappelow, an award-winning photographer and biographer, was found battered to death, partially burned and buried under four feet of paper at his house in Hampstead. The man eventually convicted of his murder was a Chinese dissident named Wang Yam; a man who claimed to be a key negotiator in the Tiananmen Square protests. Thomas Harding has spent the past two years investigating the case, described by the press as 'the greatest whodunnit' of recent years, and has unearthed shocking and revelatory new material on the killing.
Thomas Harding (Author), Thomas Harding (Narrator)
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In the summer of 1993, Thomas Harding travelled to Germany with his grandmother to visit a house by a lake. It had been a holiday home for her family, that she had been forced to leave as the Nazis swept to power. As he began to piece together the lives of the five families who had lived, he realised that this house had witnessed violence, betrayals and murders, had withstood the trauma of a world war, and the dividing of a nation.
Thomas Harding (Author), Mark Meadows (Narrator)
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In July 2012 Thomas Harding's fourteen-year-old son Kadian was killed in an accident. Shortly afterwards Thomas began to write. Beginning on the day of Kadian's death, and continuing to the one-year anniversary, Kadian Journal is a record of grief, and of a mind in shock. Interspersed within the journal are fragments of memory: jewel-bright everyday moments that slowly combine to form a biography of a lost son.
Thomas Harding (Author), Thomas Harding (Narrator)
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Hanns and Rudolf: The True Story of the German Jew Who Tracked and Caught the Kommandant of Auschwit
The untold story of the man who brought a mastermind of the final solution to justice May 1945. In the aftermath of the Second World War, the first British War Crimes Investigation Team is assembled to hunt down the senior Nazi officials responsible for the greatest atrocities the world has ever seen. One of the lead investigators is Lieutenant Hanns Alexander, a German Jew who is now serving in the British Army. Rudolf Höss is his most elusive target. As kommandant of Auschwitz, Höss not only oversaw the murder of more than one million men, women, and children, he was the man who perfected Hitler’s program of mass extermination. Höss is on the run across a continent in ruins, the one man whose testimony can ensure justice at Nuremberg. Hanns and Rudolf reveals for the very first time the full, exhilarating account of Höss’ capture, an encounter with repercussions that echo to this day. Moving from the Middle Eastern campaigns of the First World War to bohemian Berlin in the 1920s to the horror of the concentration camps and the trials in Belsen and Nuremberg, it tells the story of two German men—one Jewish, one Catholic—whose lives diverged and intersected in an astonishing way.
Thomas Harding (Author), Mark Meadows (Narrator)
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