The escape artist : the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world
Freedland, Jonathan, 1967-2022
Books, Manuscripts
In April 1944 a teenager named Rudolf Vrba was planning a daring and unprecedented escape from Auschwitz. After hiding in a pile of timber planks for three days while 3,000 SS men and their bloodhounds searched for him, Vrba and his fellow escapee Fred Wetzler would eventually cross Nazi-occupied Poland on foot, as penniless fugitives. Their mission: to tell the world the truth of the Final Solution. A thrilling history with enormous historical implications, 'The Escape Artist' tells the extraordinary story of a complex man who would seek escape again and again: first from Auschwitz, then from his past, even from his own name.
Main title:
The escape artist : the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world / Jonathan Freedland.
Author:
Freedland, Jonathan, 1967-, author
Imprint:
London : John Murray, 2022.
Collation:
376 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781529369045 (hbk)
Dewey class:
940.5318092940.531809940.531809 FRE940.531
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3254683