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The escape artist : the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world / Jonathan Freedland.

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ISBN: 0063112337
ISBN: 9780063112339
Physical Description: x, 376 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Edition: First U.S. edition
Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]
Copyright: ©2022.

General Note:	"Originally published in Great Britain in 2022 by John Murray (Publishers), a Hachette UK company"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-359) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Prologue -- Part I: The preparations. Star ; Five hundred reichsmarks ; Deported ; Majdanek -- Part II: The camp. We were slaves ; Kanada ; The final solution ; Big business ; The ramp ; The memory man ; Birkenau ; "It has been wonderful" --- Part III: The escape. Escape was lunacy ; Russian lessons ; The hideout ; Let my people go ; Underground ; On the run ; Crossing the border -- Part IV: In black and white ; Men of God ; What can I do? ; London has been informed ; Hungarian salami -- Part V: The shadow. A wedding with guns ; A new nation, a new England ; Canada ; I know a way out ; Flowers of emptiness ; Too many to count.