Sigmund Freud, c 1932 - Getty the Rhine in June 1938. The Jewish psychoanalyst's hard-won escape from Austria to England, and the six quite disparate people who engineered it, are the subject of Andrew Nagorski's Saving Freud. Nagorski (former foreign correspondent for Newsweek) has written various histories, including of wartime Russia, Nazi hunters and Eastern Europe in the 1990s. Here he concentrates on Freud's cancer-ridden last years but looks back to his earlier life, the chequered beginnings of psychoanalysis and the growing menace of Germany in the 1930s. Almost more resistant to Freud's flight than the Nazis was Freud himself....