
The Fierce
The Untold Story of the Teenager Who Took On the Worst War Criminal Living in America
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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 ā 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
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- 1 āI Felt the Spirit of the Warsaw Ghetto Fightersā
- 2 A Destiny to Serve God
- 3 America, Land of the Free
- 4 āI Am Statelessā
- 5 āThe Holocaust Was Motherās Milk to Meā
- 6 āLike Trying to Put Together the Pieces of a Shattered Chandelierā
- 7 āThings Were Ugly and They Were About to Get a Lot Uglierā
- 8 āI Will Build a Better Tomorrowā
- 9 āThe Uncrowned Leader of the Croatian Movementā
- 10 āWe Canāt Let this Guy Get Biological Amnestyā
- 11 āIt Felt Like Redemptionā
- 12 āManās Law or Godās Law?ā
- 13 āIāve Never Been So Ashamed To Be Roman Catholicā
- 14 āIt Has Made Those Who Know Us Love Us Moreā
- 15 āArtukoviÄās Final Battleā
- 16 The Power of Love
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography