Historian Paul A. Levine, senior lecturer at Uppsala University, is primarily known for the much recognized book “Tell ye your children”, together with Stéphane Bruchfeld in 1997. A year earlier, his valuable dissertation about Swedish diplomacy between 1938 and 1944, “From Indifference to Activism”, was published. This new book picks up where his dissertation left off. The focus is on Raoul Wallenberg, architect and businessman, who in July 1944 joined the Swedish legation in Budapest in its humanitarian rescue mission on behalf of the remaining Jews of Hungary. During the six months to come, Wallenberg distinguished himself from the other accredited diplomats by his unconventional methods, and he has in popular memory become a symbol for the success of the rescue action. Unlike his colleagues, Wallenberg was arrested and spent the rest of his life in Soviet captivity. No doubt his tragic fate has had an impact on how posterity has remembered him, and already at an early stage myth-making became part of the Wallenberg epic.