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    Hitler's Pawn: The Boy Assassin and the Holocaust

    By Stephen Koch

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  • Herschel’s story is not really about another victim among six million victims. It’s about a naïve but intense kid suddenly trapped in the spotlight of world politics, and moreover world politics on the edge. It is about fame and obscurity. About the fall of France, and the first phase of World War II. It has a murder, political intrigue, a chase through France, a kidnapping by the Gestapo, and a very young man who from his Gestapo prison, enters, and wins, a battle of wits with Goebbels and Hitler himself.
  • A backstory when selling this book: Author Stephen Koch was researching a possible book about Frank Lloyd Wright, and the more he learned about him, the less he liked him, including that, like his friend Charles Lindberg, Wright was all wrong about Hitler. And who was right about Hitler? Dorothy Thompson. Koch began researching Thompson, and found she had set up a defense fund for a once world-famous, now forgotten Jewish teenager in Paris. His name: the unspellable and seemingly unpronounceable "Herschel Grynszpan" (It’s really simple: "Greenspan.") A kid whose rash act was used by Hitler as a trigger for the Holocaust. And thus Koch's Pawn
  • Marketing and outreach to NAIBA as well as to the National Jewish Book Council and JBC
  • Opportunities for cross-promotion with Junior Library Guild and historical and Jewish book clubs
  • Formerly the chairman of the Creative Writing Division in the School of the Arts at Columbia, Koch wrote a classic text on writing, The Modern Library Writers’ Workshop.
    • LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCounterpoint
    Release dateJan 8, 2019
    ISBN9781640091450
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    Stephen Koch

    Stephen Koch is the author of The Modern Library Writer’s Workshop: A Guide to the Craft of Fiction; The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the Murder of José Robles; Double Lives: Spies and Writers in the Secret Soviet War of Ideas Against the West; and other books. He previously taught creative writing at Columbia and Princeton universities for nearly twenty years.

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