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

A brilliant and heart-wrenching book, with universal and timely lessons about the power of information—-and misinformation.

Is it possible to stop mass murder by telling the truth?" — Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind and Homo Deus: A Brief History of TomorrowA complex hero.

A forgotten story.

The first witness to reveal the full truth of the Holocaust .

Award-winning journalist and bestselling novelist Jonathan Freedland tells the astonishing true story of Rudolf Vrba, the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world of a truth too few were willing to hear.In April 1944, Rudolf Vrba became one of the very first Jews to escape from Auschwitz and make his way to freedom—-among only a tiny handful who ever pulled off that near-impossible feat.

He did it to reveal the truth of the death camp to the world—-and to warn the last Jews of Europe what fate awaited them.