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The Escape Artist

The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World

by Jonathan Freedland

Publication: First published 2024
ISBNs: 9780063422742, 9780063275218

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Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
2022

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