The Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine

530 Pages·2012·13.28 MB·English

by  Edwin Black

What reviewers have said about
The Transfer Agreement
Black has authored an exhaustive, compelling, well-written and edited
work. It is historical journalism at its best.
Alexander Zvielli, Jerusalem Post
Black has meticulously documented this obscure but important slice
of world history, and makes an essential contribution to an
understanding of Israeli politics and the strife in the Middle East
today.
Gladwyn Hill , Los Angeles Times
Black reconstructs in depressing detail the strident debates and
acrimonious struggles…while pursuing the increasingly unrealistic
goal of bringing the third Reich to its knees.
A.J. Sherman , The New York Times
A struggle to write a painful chapter in Jewish history. What Black
began uncovering was a tangled account of an anguished moment in
history, one that he at the center had to piece together from…forgotten
archives, newspapers from the pre-WWII era and government records.
Jan Cawley , Chicago Tribune Magazine
Edwin Black applied his established investigative journalism
techniques to history. The result is an extraordinary book, The
Transfer Agreement .
Bill Kurtis , CBS Morning News
Meticulously researched…Black took five years to research and write
this incredible volume…Black poses the controversial question: ‘Was
it madness or was it genius?’ The many fascinated readers will have to
decide for themselves.
Booklist
Black brings an incredible amount of material together. With uncanny
skill, he keeps it all under control. Five stars.
The Cincinnati Enquirer
A passionate book… An incredible job.
Chicago Sun-Times
Outlines brilliantly the historic roots of German anti-Semitism.
The Denver Post
Five years of exhaustive research…the undertaking was immense.
Dallas Times Herald
An exhaustively documented and compelling book.
Alan Borsuk , Milwaukee Journal
A well-documented, highly charged book that is likely to stir
controversy.
The Baltimore Sun
Riveting.
Chicago Tribune Book World
Black in The Transfer Agreement seriously challenged orthodox views
of history. Whereas many might see the Second World War as a
struggle between good and evil, a history that is completely written
and understood, Black paints a very different and more nuanced
picture. His works suggest that Hitler’s Germany was not only
appeased by the West, but benefited financially and even ideologically
from the United States, Europe and, as we have seen, the Jewish
community in Palestine, even as the war was being fought.
Atticus Mullikin, European Journalism Centre Magazine
On one level, this book is an exciting spy story. On another, it is a
heartbreaking account of anguished and bewildered human beings
caught in a nightmare situation.
Present Tense
As a work of historical journalism, this book is exhaustive and
compelling.
Ben Halpern, Moment
Edwin Black has succeeded beyond my hopes and expectations of
doing justice to the Jewish protagonists of this dreadful and
depressing history. He has not shirked his painful task but
accomplished it in a compelling, enlightened and sympathetic way.
Robert Wolfe, National Archives
Truly a brilliant piece of work. It has captured the passion, ferocity,
exultation and yes, naiveté of that moment in history… an artistic tour
de force .
Morris Frommer, author,
The American Jewish Congress, a History
Excellent and revealing. Fills the vacuum in the history of both the
German economy and of the Zionist movement. This book is
informative, exciting, as well as challenging and morally disturbing.
Arthur Schweitzer, author, Big Business and the Third Reich
It reads like a good spy book, something out of John Le Carre.
Byron Sherwin, author, Encountering the Holocaust
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The Dramatic Story of the Pact between the Third Reich and Jewish
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Copyright © 1983, 1999, 2001, 2009 by Edwin Black
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First Dialog edition 2009
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