The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World by Kati Marton
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Renowned journalist and bestselling author Kati Matron conveys a haunting tale of the wartime Hungarian Diaspora. In The Great Escape, Matron profiles the lives of nine illustrious Hungarians who were “double outsiders” as Jewish natives of a small, landlocked country. The Great Escape captures the experiences of insecurity, isolation, and perpetual exile shared between these individuals’ as they fled fascism and anti-Semitism for the New World. In spite of these crippling challenges, however, each of Matron’s subjects achieved world fame.
Herself Hungarian-born, the daughter of journalists who escaped Soviet-occupied Hungary in 1957, Marton captures her fellow Hungarians' nostalgia for prewar Budapest, evoking its flamboyant cafes, its trams, boulevards and cosmopolitan Jewish community. Marton writes beautifully, balancing sharply defined character studies of each man with insights into their shared cultural traits and uprootedness.
Herself Hungarian-born, the daughter of journalists who escaped Soviet-occupied Hungary in 1957, Marton captures her fellow Hungarians' nostalgia for prewar Budapest, evoking its flamboyant cafes, its trams, boulevards and cosmopolitan Jewish community. Marton writes beautifully, balancing sharply defined character studies of each man with insights into their shared cultural traits and uprootedness.
