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Saving Freud : the rescuers who brought him to freedom / Andrew Nagorski.

Summary:

Part incisive new biography of Freud, part group biography of the extraordinary friends who saved his life, this riveting story shows how a group of those closest to Freud persuaded him to escape to London following the German annexation of Austria.

In March 1938 Hitler absorbed the country of Austria into the Third Reich. Many Jews had already fled, but Sigmund Freud-- eighty-one years old and ill with cancer-- was unconvinced that his life was in danger. Nagorski tells of how several prominent people coaxed Freud from his deep state of denial, and extricated him and his family to London. -- adapted from jacket

Record details

ISBN: 9781982172831
ISBN: 1982172835
Physical Description: 336 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2022.
Copyright: ©2022

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-320) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	"To die in freedom" -- "Laboratory of the apocalypse" -- "A Celt from Wales!" -- "A long polar night" -- "Vestal" -- "A man of the world" - "No prudishness whatsoever" -- "Violent pain" - "Political blindness" -- "The Austrian cell" -- "Operation Freud" -- "This England" -- Afterword.