Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom ~ SIGNED TO TITLE PAGE FIRST/FIRST

Nagorski, Andrew

ISBN 10: 1982172835 / ISBN 13: 9781982172831

Published by Simon & Schuster, 2022

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First edition. Hard cover. Simon & Schuster (2022) New in new dust jacket. Signed by author. SIGNED FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING Hardcover: new. Dust jacket: new. Personally signed by the author to the full title page. Not a tip in. Not a bookplate. First edition, first printing, full number line. Dust jacket is wrapped in protective archival grade mylar. Photos available upon request.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom ~ SIGNED TO TITLE PAGE FIRST/FIRST
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1982172835
• ISBN 13: 9781982172831
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

A dramatic true story about Sigmund Freud’s last-minute escape to London following the German annexation of Austria and the group of friends who made it possible.

In March 1938, German soldiers crossed the border into Austria and Hitler absorbed the country into the Third Reich. Anticipating these events, many Jews had fled Austria, but the most famous Austrian Jew remained in Vienna, where he had lived since early childhood. Sigmund Freud was eighty-one years old, ill with cancer, and still unconvinced that his life was in danger.

But several prominent people close to Freud thought otherwise, and they began a coordinated effort to persuade Freud to leave his beloved Vienna and emigrate to England. The group included a Welsh physician, Napoleon’s great-grandniece, an American ambassador, Freud’s devoted youngest daughter Anna, and his personal doctor.

Saving Freud is the story of how this remarkable collection of people finally succeeded in coaxing Freud, a man who seemingly knew the human mind better than anyone else, to emerge from his deep state of denial about the looming catastrophe, allowing them to extricate him and his family from Austria so that they could settle in London. There Freud would live out the remaining sixteen months of his life in freedom.

This book is both an incisive new biography of Freud and a group biography of the extraordinary friends who saved Freud’s life.

About the Author

Andrew Nagorski served as Newsweek’s bureau chief in Hong Kong, Moscow, Rome, Bonn, Warsaw, and Berlin. He is the author of seven previous critically acclaimed books, including Hitlerland and The Nazi Hunters. He has also written for countless publications. Visit him at AndrewNagorski.com.