Raoul Wallenberg HISTORY / Asia / Japan

Raoul Wallenberg HISTORY / Asia / JapanThis book tells the story of how a Swedish diplomat who saved the lives of thousands of Jews in Hungary became a symbol after his disappearance in January 1945. A variety of aspects are analysed, including secret diplomacy and representations of Wallenberg on film and television as well as in monuments.

to hold to a reasonable number the cross references that I inserted whenever I found that a point I try to make in one chapter is supported or amplified by an argument offered in another

Publication coincides with Chabrol's new film which is discussed in this study

It features a wealth of real-life examples

how it has evolved

on which urban elites have syphoned off wealth from other localities and regions

Peter Greenaway's The Falls

recent Indian history

the problems of administering them

The Adventurers for Irish land transformed England’s trade and government finances in the mid-seventeenth century

structure and purpose of the first and no longer extant version of his most controversial play

Ambedkar’s ideas transformed untouchability

It shows how