The School That Escaped the Nazis: The True Story of the Schoolteacher Who Defied Hitler

by Deborah Cadbury and Trish Doller

Book Overview

Named one of Book Riot's BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF 2022

The extraordinary true story of a courageous school principal who saw the dangers of Nazi Germany and took drastic steps to save those in harm's way.

In 1933, the same year Hitler came to power, schoolteacher Anna Essinger saved her small, progressive school from Nazi Germany. Anna had read Mein Kampf and knew the terrible danger that Hitler's hate-fueled ideologies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1541751191
• ISBN13: 9781541751194
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: PublicAffairs
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"