As he magnificently combines meticulous scholarship withirresistible narrative appeal, Richardson draws on his closefriendship with Picasso, his own diaries, the collaboration ofPicasso's widow Jacqueline, and unprecedented access to Picasso'sstudio and papers to arrive at a profound understanding of theartist and his work. 800 photos.
This first fully documented biography of SimonWiesenthal, the legendary Nazi hunter, is also a brilliantcharacter study of a man whose life was part invention but whollydedicated to ensuring both that the Nazis be held responsible fortheir crimes and that the destruction of European Jewry never beforgotten. Like most Jews in Eastern Europe on the eve ofHitler’s invasion of Poland, twenty-four-year-old Simon Wiesenthaldid not grasp the nature of the Nazi threat. But six years later,when a skeletal Wiesenthal was liberated from the concentrationcamp at Mauthausen, he fully fathomed the crimes of the Nazis.Within days he had assembled a list of nearly 150 Nazi warcriminals, the first of dozens of such lists he would make over alifetime as a Nazi hunter. A hero in the eyes of many, Wiesenthalwas also attacked for his unrelenting pursuit of the past, whenothers preferred to forget. For this new biography, rich in newsworthy revelations, historianand journalist Tom Segev has obtained access to Wiesenthal’s
