The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi

The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi  by Neal Bascombe. 
This gem found its way to my doorstep via the wonderful people at Scholastic.  I snatched it out of the box before my daughter grabbed it and now she is itching to sweep it off of my nightstand.  How much I learned from this book!  Although I've taught the Holocaust for all of my 24 years of teaching, I didn't know the story of how Adolf Eichmann came to be captured and tried in a court of law- captured by the Israelis (most of whom were Holocaust survivors) AND tried in Israel.  How fitting!  It's good to know that justice reigned for some part of this heinous era in history. 

Most impressive to me was the reconnaissance that went into hunting down, staking out, and capturing Eichmann.  Then, after he was captured, it was another week before he could be sneaked out on an Israeli aircraft.  My very favorite line came from one of the flight attendants on the plane where no one knew what was going on.  He whispered to the man in charge:  "Do you have Mengele or Eichmann?"  Oh, how I wish Mengele would have suffered the same fate.  This book is scheduled to be released on August 27th (according to Amazon), and is well worth adding to your classroom bookshelves.