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It tells the story of the Auschwitz escapee Rudolf Vrba.
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History, Society & Current Affairs
The Escape Artist
The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
Written by
Published by
John Murray (Hachette UK)
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World is a work of history by the journalist Jonathan Freedland, published by John Murray in June 2022.
- Published
- 2022
- Pages
- 400
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
In 1944 a young Slovak Jew named Rudolf Vrba did what almost no one else managed: he escaped from Auschwitz, and he did it to warn the world.
Jonathan Freedland's The Escape Artist tells Vrba's astonishing story - the meticulous planning, the flight, and the detailed report he produced documenting the machinery of mass murder - and then confronts the harder question of why his warning was so often ignored or suppressed.
Freedland, a Guardian columnist, writes with the pace of a thriller and the care of a historian, restoring a figure history nearly forgot. intendle recommends it as an unforgettable act of witness, gripping and morally urgent. Winner of the National Jewish Book Award and shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize, it is both a survival epic and a study of how the world responds to unbearable truth.
A story that should be as famous as any from the Holocaust, told at last with the power it deserves.
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Pages
400
Published
2022
John Murray (Hachette UK)
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Format
Hardcover
First UK edition
Language
English
History, Society & Current Affairs
ISBN
978-1529369045
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