{"product_id":"the-strasbourg-legacy-paperback","title":"The Strasbourg Legacy - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilliam Craig\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA CIA agent fights a sinister plot by escaped Nazi Martin Bormann in this thriller from the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eEnemy at the Gates\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the chaos of defeat, while Germany's roads teemed with desperate refugees and jumbled armies, Hitler's inner circle tried to disappear. Heinrich Himmler donned an eye patch and posed as a farmer. Captured by British troops, he bit into a cyanide capsule concealed in a tooth cavity. Rudolph Hoess, former commandant of Auschwitz, was discovered working as a farmhand near Bremen. But many of the most notorious Nazis escaped, including Josef Mengele and Adolf Eichmann. Martin Bormann, the Fuehrer's private secretary, was rumored to be living everywhere from the Soviet Union to South America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Almost three decades later, CIA agent Matt Corcoran is sent to Bad Nauheim to investigate possible Soviet involvement in the theft of US Army munitions. He hears whispers of German Reds blowing up NATO ammo dumps, neo-Nazis aiding the Arab cause against Israel, and a plot to assassinate the German chancellor. Corcoran soon begins to suspect that behind the turmoil is an organization as diabolical as it is improbable: a cadre of loyal Nazi officers, under the command of Bormann, who are bent on bringing about the Fourth Reich. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As action-packed as \u003ci\u003eThe Odessa File \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Boys from Brazil\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Strasbourg Legacy \u003c\/i\u003eis first-class suspense from an acclaimed historian of World War II, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Fall of Japan\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam Craig (1929-1997) was an American historian and novelist. Born and raised in Concord, Massachusetts, he interrupted his career as an advertising salesman to appear on the quiz show \u003ci\u003eTic-Tac-Dough\u003c\/i\u003e in 1958. With his $42,000 in winnings--a record-breaking amount at the time--Craig enrolled at Columbia University and earned both an undergraduate and a master's degree in history. He published his first book, \u003ci\u003eThe Fall of Japan\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1967. A narrative history of the final weeks of World War II in the Pacific, it reached the top ten on the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller list and was deemed \"virtually flawless\" by the\u003ci\u003e New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e. In order to write \u003ci\u003eEnemy at the Gates \u003c\/i\u003e(1973), a documentary account of the Battle of Stalingrad, Craig travelled to three continents and interviewed hundreds of military and civilian survivors. A \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller, the book inspired a film of the same name starring Jude Law and Joseph Fiennes. In addition to his histories of World War II, Craig wrote two acclaimed espionage thrillers: \u003ci\u003eThe Tashkent Crisis \u003c\/i\u003e(1971) and \u003ci\u003eThe Strasbourg Legacy \u003c\/i\u003e(1975).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 194\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.45 x 8 x 5.25 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 22, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760606642464,"sku":"9781504052313","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/b89738a6aa06da4db14617b0220c61a2.webp?v=1780184643","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-strasbourg-legacy-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}