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

In April 1944 nineteen-year-old Rudolf Vrba and fellow inmate Fred Wetzler became the first Jews ever to break out of Auschwitz. Under electrified fences and past armed watchtowers, evading thousands of SS men and slavering dogs, they trekked across marshlands, mountains and rivers to freedom. Vrba’s mission: to reveal to the world the truth of the Holocaust.

‘A magnificent book. I could scarcely breathe at some points. What a tribute to its extraordinary hero, and it’s such an important and necessary story to read… I can’t praise it too highly.What an achievement’ – Philip Pullman

‘Excellent… thrilling… Freedland’s book is rich in the kind of details that haunt you long after you have turned the last page’ – Sunday Times

‘A brilliant and heart-wrenching book, with universal and timely lessons about the power of information – and misinformation’ – Yuval Noah Harari