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Saving Freud, a life in Vienna and an escape to freedom in London, Andrew Nagorski

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Saving Freud, a life in Vienna and an escape to freedom in London, Andrew Nagorski

Language

eng

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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individual biography

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Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Saving Freud

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Andrew Nagorski

Sub title

a life in Vienna and an escape to freedom in London

Summary

March 1938: German soldiers are massing on the Austrian border, on the cusp of fulfilling Hitler's dream of absorbing the country into the Third Reich. Many Jews make frantic plans to flee to safety. But one of the most famous men in the world, unable to contemplate leaving his beloved Vienna, is not among them. His name is Sigmund Freud. Saving Freud is the story of a great man's life and of the extraordinary people who managed to prolong it, by convincing him to escape to London: the Welsh physician who brought psychoanalysis to Britain; Napoleon's great-grandniece; an American ambassador; Freud's devoted daughter, Anna; and the doctor who risked his own life by staying at Freud's side. In examining the histories of both Freud and his closest circle, Andrew Nagorski brilliantly evokes the story of Europe in the first half of the Twentieth Century. This is a tale of a great city, a collapsing empire, a rising terror and of a man who would change the way we think

Target audience

adult

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