The Fierce
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The Fierce

The Untold Story of the Teenager Who Took On the Worst War Criminal Living in America

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eBook - ePub

The Fierce

The Untold Story of the Teenager Who Took On the Worst War Criminal Living in America

About this book

For three decades after the Second World War, the 'Butcher of the Balkans' lived an idyllic life with his family in a Los Angeles suburb. Andrija Artukovi? was a senior member of the Ustasha, a Croatian fascist and nationalist movement, and was responsible for the wartime murders of hundreds of thousands of men, women and children. Wanted in Yugoslavia to stand trial for war crimes, he had illegally entered and claimed political asylum in the United States – and his powerful supporters sought to keep him there.

Meanwhile, just 10 miles away, David Whitelaw lived with his mother, Judith, who fled Germany in 1938. Seventy-six of her relatives were killed in the Holocaust. When David learned Artukovi? was living comfortably nearby, he vowed to ensure his deportation to stand trial as a war criminal. But when a firebomb, thrown with the sole intention of causing fear, saw the young man sent to jail, a battle began for his own freedom, while the war criminal remained at large.

A true David-versus-Goliath battle, The Fierce is the story of the teenager who helped take down the worst mass murderer and war criminal in America.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. 1 ā€˜I Felt the Spirit of the Warsaw Ghetto Fighters’
  7. 2 A Destiny to Serve God
  8. 3 America, Land of the Free
  9. 4 ā€˜I Am Stateless’
  10. 5 ā€˜The Holocaust Was Mother’s Milk to Me’
  11. 6 ā€˜Like Trying to Put Together the Pieces of a Shattered Chandelier’
  12. 7 ā€˜Things Were Ugly and They Were About to Get a Lot Uglier’
  13. 8 ā€˜I Will Build a Better Tomorrow’
  14. 9 ā€˜The Uncrowned Leader of the Croatian Movement’
  15. 10 ā€˜We Can’t Let this Guy Get Biological Amnesty’
  16. 11 ā€˜It Felt Like Redemption’
  17. 12 ā€˜Man’s Law or God’s Law?’
  18. 13 ā€˜I’ve Never Been So Ashamed To Be Roman Catholic’
  19. 14 ā€˜It Has Made Those Who Know Us Love Us More’
  20. 15 ā€˜Artuković’s Final Battle’
  21. 16 The Power of Love
  22. Epilogue
  23. Acknowledgements
  24. Bibliography