The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Jonathan Freedland (Author, Narrator), John Murray (Publisher)

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The astonishing, forgotten story of the hero who escaped from Auschwitz to reveal the truth of the Holocaust.

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.

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11 hours and 47 minutes
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Jonathan Freedland
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Jonathan Freedland
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9 Jun. 2022
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English
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John Murray
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B09L3698WX
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Unabridged
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Listening Length	11 hours and 47 minutes
Author	Jonathan Freedland
Narrator	Jonathan Freedland
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.co.uk Release Date	09 June 2022
Publisher	John Murray
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B09L3698WX
Best Sellers Rank	306 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 1 in Judaism (Audible Books & Originals) 3 in Military History of Prisoners of War 4 in Military History (Audible Books & Originals)

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Robbie Gringras

Important, powerful, exhilerating, heartbreaking

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 June 2022

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I'm the kind of person who learned about the Holocaust several decades ago. I went through my horrified obsession period. Nowadays I don't search out the topic. It was disgraceful, disgusting, must never be forgotten, and something I didn't need to read about.

Until The Escape Artist changed my mind.

First of all, it's not "just" a holocaust book. It's about an incredible man and his quest to escape Auschwitz and tell the world.

Second, we learn through the eyes of our flawed hero Rudolf Vrba the facts and details of the Nazi slave camps and their death camps. Following his discoveries brings them fresh and sharp into the heart.

Third, the book follows his attempts to bring the truth to the world, and his infuriating, frustrating, failures. In doing so Freedland is both forgiving of human frailties while leaving the reader to condemn.

Truth, information, action. As authoritarianism and the climate crisis loom, the careful, sensitive yet fiery way Freedland explores the connection between these three words - as his hero did thoughout his troubled and vibrant life - is a powerful lesson to us all.

A classic.

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Denis Reed

Escaping this man made hell...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 June 2022

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An account of great courage in the face of bottomless depths of savagery,brutality and inhumanity carried out by human beings against other human beings they considered unfit to live.At times harrowing in its' descriptions of the ghastly treatment of both the living and the dead;at others it raises uncomfortable questions-what would you have done to stay alive one more day;what depths of depravity would you plumb to cling onto favour and to life.
And it is an escape story.A very unique escape.The tension is unbearable-even knowing the outcome doesn't lessen it given the involvement we have by that time in the life of Walter.
This book will stay long in my memory.
Unfortunately I doubt it will mean anything to today's crop of would be Nazi's.

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Bob Barr

A masterpiece

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 June 2022

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This is an outstanding account of the life of a very remarkable man. Through his eyes we are led through the mechanics of Auschwitz as a place of forced Labour to the point of death; as a place of plunder and pillage and as a hyper efficient killing factory. The lack of emotion as these horrors unroll on the page leaves the reader to react in their own way.

Following the escape the mystery of why knowledge of the atrocities did not provide either the political power nor the self-preservation instinct to halt the holocaust is well explored as is the aftermath of the experiences.

A very remarkable and well written book.

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Chocolate Addict

An incredibly moving story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 June 2022

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John Freedland brings the horror of the Holocaust to life incredibly powerfully in ‘The Escape Artist’. I found the story of Rudolf Vrba’s escape so moving that I wasn’t able to put the book down, literally reading it in one day. I just hope that Stephen Spielberg reads this and decides to make Vrba’s life into a film.

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gillian howard

great read!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 July 2022

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I enjoyed this book, so heartbreaking, but very easy to read and hard to put down!
Such a tragedy, but inspiring

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Stuart Sanders

The Escape Artist

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 July 2022

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Jonathan Freedland has written a compelling account of the extraordinary life of Rudolf Vrba.
The narrative starts in Nazi dominated Slovakia, continues through German prison camps, ending with the post-escape period of Vrba’s life.
The account of the brutality he witnessed and experience in Auchwitz and Birkenau is graphic and haunting. Nevertheless, his strength of mind and spirit of self preservation did not break.
Would I recommend this book? Yes, with the caveat that the reader should be aware that the narrative contains detail that is at times horrifying; certainly, this book is not for everyone.

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Jonathan Sandler

The book tells an important story and poses interesting questions.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 July 2022

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Jonathan Freedland passionately felt that this extraordinary story deserved to be re-told and I am very glad that he did. Whilst the horrors of the Holocaust are well known, this book details one the most extraordinary escape stories - that is in itself is worthy of a blockbuster film. We then learn of how he tries to warn the world. How does society react when you are being warned of imminent danger? The book tells the story of how it happened rather than making judgments - which for me was the most fascinating part. Further to this, the author explores the complexity of Vrba’s life afterwards, observing how Vrba is ostracized from the mainstream - which is also very interesting. The book tells an important story and poses interesting questions. Well worth a read. It is nicely paced and the right length.

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Richard

an amazing true story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 August 2022

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I was riveted by this story. Although documenting terrible human torture and murder, the story of Walter and Fred and their determination to save lives is a testimony to unique individuals who never give up.

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