When Hitler invaded Austria in March of 1938, Sigmund Freud was among the 175,000 Viennese Jews dreading Nazi occupation. Though Freud was near the end of his life, eighty-one years old, battling cancer of the jaw, and Hitler's rise on the world stage was just beginning, the fates of these two historical giants were nonetheless intertwined. In this historical narrative, Edmundson traces Hitler and Freud's oddly converging lives, then zeroes in on Freud's escape to London--[back cover].