
The Great Escape
Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World
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Anna Fields
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Kati Marton
In a style both personal and historically groundbreaking, acclaimed author Kati Marton (born in Budapest) tells the tale of their youth in Budapest's Golden Age of the early 20th century, their flight, and their lives of extraordinary accomplishment, danger, glamour, and poignancy.
Marton follows these nine over the decades as they flee fascism and anti-Semitism, seek sanctuary in America and England, and set out to make their mark. The scientists Leo Szilard, Edward Teller, and Eugene Wigner enlist Albert Einstein to get Franklin Roosevelt to initiate the development of the atomic bomb. Along with John von Neuman, who pioneers the computer, they succeed in achieving that goal before Nazi Germany, ending the Second World War, and opening a new age.
Arthur Koestler writes the most important anti-Communist novel of the century, Darkness at Noon. Robert Capa is the first photographer ashore on D-Day. He virtually invents photojournalism and gives us some of the century's most enduring records of modern warfare.
Andre Kertesz pioneers modern photojournalism, and Alexander Korda, who makes propaganda films for Churchill, leaves the stark portrait of a post war Europe with The Third Man, as his fellow filmmaker, Michael Curtiz, leaves us the immortal Casablanca, a call to arms and the most famous romantic film of all time.
Marton brings passion and breadth to these dramatic lives as they help invent the 20th century.
©2006 Kati Marton (P)2006 Tantor Media, Inc.Listeners also enjoyed...




















Critic reviews
- Audie Award Finalist, Biography/Memoir, 2007
"A haunting tale...Marton writes beautifully." (Publishers Weekly)
"Kati Marton's wonderful book celebrates what is glorious and eternal in the human condition." (Elie Wiesel, Nobel Laureate and author of Night)
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The only drawbacks is that this is definitely a book that would be better read than listened to. Character and scenario changes are too abrupt for audio, but probably not so for the written word.
Also, the author doesn't treat all of her subjects with an equal hand. Her sympathies lie with sociopathic Left wing pacifists, alcoholics, and womanizers whereas Teller is gloomy and controversial despite his possessing those character traits which normal people would much rather associate with personally.
The Great Meandering
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The narration is excellent. The book moves along at a good clip without boring the reader.
very interesting, well-narrated
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Wonderful story, awful narration
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good, solid work
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End of book messed up
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Fantastic!
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