The Escape Artist

In April 1944 A Teenager Named Rudolf Vrba Was Planning A Daring And Unprecedented Escape From Auschwitz. After Hiding In A Pile Of Timber Planks For Three Days While 3,000 Ss Men And Their Bloodhounds Searched For Him, Vrba And His Fellow Escapee Fred Wetzler Would Eventually Cross Nazi-occupied Poland On Foot, As Penniless Fugitives. Their Mission: To Tell The World The Truth Of The Final Solution. Vrba Would Produce From Memory A Breathtaking Report Of More Than Thirty Pages Revealing The True Nature And Scale Of Auschwitz - A Report That Would Find Its Way To Roosevelt, Churchill And The Pope, Eventually Saving Over 200,000 Jewish Lives. A Thrilling History With Enormous Historical Implications, The Escape Artist Is The Extraordinary Story Of A Complex Man Who Would Seek Escape Again And Again: First From Auschwitz, Then From His Past, Even From His Own Name. In Telling His Story, Jonathan Freedland - The Journalist, Broadcaster And Acclaimed, Multi-million Copy Selling Author Of The Sam Bourne Novels - Ensures That Rudolf Vrba's Heroic Mission Will Also Escape Oblivion.