THE ESCAPE ARTIST [Signed]

Freedland, Jonathan

ISBN 10: 1529369045 / ISBN 13: 9781529369045

Published by John Murray, London, UK, 2022

Octavo, 376 pages. In Very Good condition with Very Good condition dust jacket. Spine is black with yellow and gray lettering. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering, price uncut: "£20" on front flap, and has mild creasing along spine tail and front head joint. Boards have mild shelving wear along spine tail. Signed flat on title page by Jonathan Freedland. Shelved in hallway. 1390905. Special Collections. Seller Inventory # 1390905

Synopsis:

THE NEW BOOK THE TRAITORS CIRCLE COMING SOON FROM JONATHAN FREEDLAND

Shortlisted for the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize
Shortlisted for the 2022 Waterstones Book of the Year
Shortlisted for the 2023 Rathbones Folio Prize
Longlisted for the 2022 Wingate Literary Prize

A Mail on Sunday, The Times, The Economist, Guardian, The Spectator, Time, and Daily Express/Daily Mirror Book of the Year 2022

'Thrilling' Daily Mail
'Gripping' Guardian
'Heartwrenching' Yuval Noah Harari
'Magnificent' Philip Pullman
'Excellent' Sunday Times
'Inspiring' Daily Mail
'An immediate classic' Antony Beevor
'Awe inspiring' Simon Sebag Montefiore
'Shattering' Simon Schama
'Utterly compelling' Philippe Sands
'A must-read' Emily Maitlis
'Indispensable' Howard Jacobson


April 1944. Nineteen-year-old Rudolf Vrba and fellow inmate Fred Wetzler became two of the very first Jews to successfully escape Auschwitz. Evading the thousands of SS men hunting them, Vrba and Wetzler made the perilous journey on foot across Nazi-occupied Poland.

Their mission: to reveal to the world the truth of the Holocaust.

Vrba's unique testimony would save some 200,000 lives.

But he kept on running - from his past, from his home country, his adopted country, even from his own name. Now, at last, Rudolf Vrba's heroism can be known.

About the Author: Jonathan Freedland is a Guardian columnist and former foreign correspondent. He has been named Columnist of the Year and Commentator of the Year and has won an Orwell Prize for Journalism. He is the presenter of BBC Radio 4's contemporary history series, The Long View, as well as two popular podcasts, Politics Weekly America and Unholy, the latter alongside the journalist Yonit Levi. This is his fourth work of non-fiction, the most recent of which is the award-winning The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World. He has written nine thrillers, eight of them under the name Sam Bourne, including The Righteous Men which was a Sunday Times number one bestseller and has sold over two million copies worldwide. His new book The Traitors Circle is coming soon.

Bibliographic Details

Title: THE ESCAPE ARTIST [Signed]
Publisher: John Murray, London, UK
Publication Date: 2022
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: First UK Edition, First Printing.