Herschel: The Boy Who Started World War II

By Andy Marino

Book Overview

On a November morning in 1938, 17-year-old Herschel Grynszpan, a German Jew hiding in Paris, walked up to the highest ranking Nazi diplomat he could find and shot him. This gripping story of a mysterious Jewish folk hero reveals the little-known chain of events that unleashed the long-planned "Kristallnacht", "The Night of Broken Glass".

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571199216
• ISBN13: 9780571199211
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Faber & Faber, Incorporated
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.5"