''Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz'' is a dual biography of

Hanns Alexander Hanns Alexander (6 May 1917 – 23 December 2006) was a German Nazi hunter who tracked down and arrested Gustav Simon, a Nazi Party official, and Rudolf Höss, the Kommandant of Auschwitz. Life Born in Berlin to father Alfred Alexander and m ...

and

Rudolf Höss Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss (also Höß, Hoeß, or Hoess; 25 November 1901 – 16 April 1947) was a German SS officer during the Nazi era who, after the defeat of Nazi Germany, was convicted for war crimes. Höss was the longest-serving comm ...

by the British-American journalist

Thomas Harding Thomas Harding (born 1448 in Cambridge, Gloucestershire, England and died at Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England, May 1532) was a sixteenth-century English religious dissident who, while waiting to be burnt at the stake as a Lollard in 1532, wa ...

Reception

''Hanns and Rudolf'' was a ''

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in hardback and paperback in the UK, and a bestseller in Israel and Italy.

Awards and honours

* 2015

Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize The Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize is an annual British literary prize inaugurated in 1977. It is named after the host ''Jewish Quarterly'' and the prize's founder Harold Hyam Wingate. The award recognises Jewish and non-Jewish writers r ...

joint winner *

2013 Costa Book Awards The Costa Book Awards were a set of annual literary awards recognising English-language books by writers based in UK and Ireland. Originally named the Whitbread Book Awards from 1971 to 2005 after its first sponsor, the Whitbread company, then ...

, shortlisted (Biography) * 2014

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Non Fiction Book of the Month * 2013 Book of the Year in The Sunday Times, Times, Telegraph, New Statesman, Observer and Guardian newspapers * 2013, August Times Book of the Week

Editions

*First UK edition: ''Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz'',

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, Great Britain, 2013, *First US edition: ''Hanns and Rudolf: The True Story of the German Jew who tracked and Caught the Kommandant of Auschwitz'',

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, New York, 2013. *German translation by Michael Schwelien : ''Hanns und Rudolf: Der deutsche Jude und die Jagd nach dem Kommandanten von Auschwitz'', DTV, 2014,

Adaptations

In May 2014 it was announced that ''Hanns and Rudolf'' had been optioned by The Ink Factory Films and that the company was in talks with Sir

Ronald Harwood Sir Ronald Harwood ( né Horwitz; 9 November 1934 – 8 September 2020) was a South African-born British author, playwright, and screenwriter, best known for his plays for the British stage as well as the screenplays for ''The Dresser'' (for w ...

to adapt the book. It was subsequently announced in May 2019 that the book had since been optioned by Altitude Film Entertainment.

References

External links

Thomas Harding
author website.
Book website
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