{"product_id":"crash-of-the-heavens-von-douglas-century","title":"Crash of the Heavens","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn the decades before World War II, thousands of young Jewish men and women left the antisemitism of Europe for British-controlled Palestine. By 1942, they then began receiving reports of unimaginable horrors: of the liquidation of the ghettos, of industrialised killing centres in Poland, of the plan to exterminate all of Europe's Jews. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Yishuv - the Jewish community in British Palestine - needed to act. Striking a deal with British Intelligence in 1943, they trained a cadre of volunteer Jewish émigrés to parachute behind enemy lines on a dual mission: assisting thousands of downed Allied airmen to escape and to rescue as many Jewish citizens as possible from the death camps.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the centre of this story is the extraordinary Hannah Senesh, a legendary poet-soldier, and her courageous female colleagues, who, armed with only their intelligence and humanity, underwent training as commandos, radio operators, and parachutists - then, in early 1944, courageously jumped behind enemy lines. Captured in her native Hungary, Senesh refused to give up any information even while suffering months of gruesome torture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrilling and inspiring, \u003cem\u003eCrash of the Heavens\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the great untold stories of World War II.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9781915590701\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe Remarkable Story of Hannah Senesh and the Only Military Mission to Rescue Europe's Jews During World War II\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover - 9781915590701","offer_id":54209680179525,"sku":"9781915590701","price":31.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/132431ba-de26-499e-ba2e-ad998fb7ebd4.jpg?v=1779681930","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/crash-of-the-heavens-von-douglas-century","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}