American Pimpernel

The incredible story of Varian Fry, the American who saved more lives than Schindler - great literary, scientific and artistic figures such as André Breton, Heinrich Mann, Marc Chagall, Max Ernst and others who represented the political and cultural élite of Europe. This is one of the last great untold stories of World War II. It is a tale full of surreal and heart-stopping episodes; a novelist smuggled out of a concentration camp right under the noses of the guards, the "secret" escape route up a mountainside in full view of the entire population of Cerbère, and Fry's attempts to keep ahead of the Nazis. This is the first time the full, true story has been told, with the benefit of the author's access to archives and the cooperation of those who best knew Varian Fry, the American Pimpernel.