Bibliograph

Saving Freud, the rescuers who brought him to freedom, Andrew Nagorski

Type

Label

Saving Freud, the rescuers who brought him to freedom, Andrew Nagorski

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-320) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

platesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Saving Freud

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1341040603

Responsibility statement

Andrew Nagorski

Sub title

the rescuers who brought him to freedom

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 AustriaIn 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

Table Of Contents

"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

Target audience

adult

Classification