Author(s): Andrew Nagorski

Biography & Memoir

The dramatic true story of Sigmund Freud's last-minute escape to London following the German annexation of Austria, and the group of friends who made it possible. 'An intimate, touching portrait of a genius as an old man' -SYLVIA NASAR, author of A BEAUTIFUL MIND 'A gripping masterpiece' -BRETT KAHR, Freud Museum London March 1938: German soldiers are massing on the Austrian border, on the cusp of fulfillingHitler's dream of absorbing the country into the Third Reich. Many Jews make frantic plansto flee to safety. But one of the most famous men in the world, unable to contemplateleaving 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 whomanaged to prolong it, by convincing him to escape to London: the Welsh physician whobrought psychoanalysis to Britain; Napoleon's great-grandniece; an Americanambassador; Freud's devoted daughter, Anna; and the doctor who risked his own life bystaying at Freud's side. In examining the histories of both Freud and his closest circle, Andrew Nagorski brilliantlyevokes the story of Europe in the first half of the Twentieth Century. This is a tale of agreat city, a collapsing empire, a rising terror -and of a man who would change the waywe think.