a deserter from death polishborn daniel singer narrowly escaped the holocaust to become one of the lefts leading social and political commentators of our time deserter from death collects singers writing from when he was a young correspondent for the economist to his years at the nation much of the material will be new and a revelation to singers followers including his coverage of the algerian crisis in the late fifties and the effervescent events of may 68 deserter from death is a social history of the past halfcentury a memorial to one of our great correspondents and a reminder of what we lost when we lost daniel singer showcasing singers writing over the course of his long and illustrious career this collection is introduced by his old friend the great polymath and intellectual george steiner