EAN: 9781529369052

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 WINGATE LITERARY PRIZETHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A MAIL ON SUNDAY THE TIMES THE ECONOMIST GUARDIAN THE SPECTATOR TIME AND DAILY EXPRESS DAILY MIRROR BOOK OF THE YEAR '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 Anne Frank. Primo Levi. Oskar Schindler . . . Rudolf Vrba. In April 1944 nineteen-year-old Rudolf Vrba and fellow inmate Fred Wetzler became two of the very first Jews ever known 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. In the death factory of Auschwitz Vrba had become an eyewitness to almost every chilling stage of the Nazis' process of industrialised murder. The more he saw the more determined he became to warn the Jews of Europe what fate awaited them. A brilliant student of science and mathematics he committed each detail to memory risking everything to collect the first data of the Final Solution. After his escape that information would form a priceless thirty-two-page report that would reach Roosevelt Churchill and the pope and eventually save over 200 000 lives. But the escape from Auschwitz was not his last. After the war he kept running - from his past from his home country from his adopted country even from his own name. Few knew of the truly extraordinary deed he had done. Now at last Rudolf Vrba's heroism can be known - and he can take his place alongside those whose stories define history's darkest chapter.

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