About the book: year / Multiple winner of the August Strindberg and other awards, an expert on literature and history, author of books about Vladimir Mayakovsky and Joseph Brodsky, Bengt Youngfeldt - barely perhaps the most famous Swedish Slavist. His book “Raoul Wallenberg. The Vanished Hero of World War II is the most detailed study to date of the life and death of the Swedish businessman, who saved many thousands of Jews from death in occupied Hungary during World War II. Youngfeldt managed to gain access to previously inaccessible Swedish archives and reconstruct in detail the chronology of Wallenberg's last days in Budapest and his stay in Soviet dungeons. The book “Raoul Wallenberg. The Vanished Hero of World War II” became a bestseller in many countries, and now it is finally being published in Russian.