{"product_id":"9780871407023","title":"The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan: A Boy Avenger, a Nazi Diplomat, and a Murder in Paris","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Reading this excellent, thought-provoking biography, one is all too easily reminded of Camus’s 1942 novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Stranger\u003c\/em\u003e.\"—Philip Kerr, \u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e On the morning of November 7, 1938, Herschel Grynszpan, a desperate seventeen-year-old Jewish refugee, walked into the German embassy in Paris and shot Ernst vom Rath, a Nazi diplomat. Two days later vom Rath lay dead, and the Third Reich exploited the murder to unleash Kristallnacht in a bizarre concatenation of events that would rapidly involve Ribbentrop, Goebbels, and Hitler himself. But was Grynszpan a crazed lone gunman or agent provocateur of the Gestapo? Was he motivated by a desire to avenge Jewish people, or did his act of violence speak to an intimate connection between the assassin and his target, as Grynszpan later claimed? Part page-turning historical thriller and part Kafkaesque legal drama, \u003cem\u003eThe Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan\u003c\/em\u003e brings to life the historical details and moral dimensions of one of the most enigmatic cases of World War II. This compelling biography presents a story with twists and turns that “no novelist could invent” (Alice Kaplan).","brand":"Liveright Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47125149417712,"sku":"9780871407023","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780871407023_p0.jpg?v=1763828944","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780871407023","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}