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The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World

byJonathan Freedland

Centered on the man who broke out of auschwitz to warn the world, The Escape Artist shows Jonathan Freedland tracing how individual lives intersect with institutions, ideas, and historical change. The Escape Artist combines biographical detail, personal testimony, and historical context, allowing the evidence to complicate easy judgments and familiar explanations. Seen through the lens of biography & autobiography and history, The Escape Artist explains not only what happened, but why competing interpretations still matter. The Escape Artist emphasizes the specific circumstances that made this story possible and the consequences that followed.

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9780063112339