The Human Pool (37 page)

Of the many books consulted, the following were referred to most:

Eichmann in Jerusalem
by Hannah Arendt (Faber and Faber, London, 1963)

Hitler's Secret Bankers
by Adam LeBor (Pocket Books, London, 1997)

IBM and the Holocaust
by Edwin Black (Little, Brown and Company, London, 2001)

Jews for Sale: Nazi-Jewish Negotiations, 1933–1945
by Yehuda Bauer (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1994)

Maskerado
by Tivadar Soros (Canongate, Edinburgh, 2000)

Nazi Gold
by Ian Sayer and Douglas Botting (Granada, London, 1984)

The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary
by Randolph L. Braham (Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 2000)

The Secret War Against the Jews
by John Loftus and Mark Aarons (St. Martin's Griffin, New York, 1997)

The Summer That Bled
by Anthony Masters (Michael Joseph, London, 1972)

The Swiss, the Gold, and the Dead
by Jean Ziegler (Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1998)

 

Thanks also to Adam LeBor, Liz Jobey, Lynn Ritchie and Richard Williams. Hoover's name was taken from my late uncle, Gustav van Hover, known to all as Hoover, with whom there are no similarities, apart from name, country of origin and emigration to the United States. Thanks also to my agent Gillon Aitken, for his patience, and my editors Tim Binding, George Lucas and Ben Ball, whose insight, thoroughness and attention to detail made this a much better book. A special thanks, as always, to Emma Matthews for her unfailing judgement, care and support.