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Enemies of the People

My Family's Journey to America

By Kati Marton

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| Hardcover | 9781416586128

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"You are opening a Pandora's box," Marton was warned when she filed for her family's secret police fi les in Budapest. But her family history -- during both the Nazi and the Communist periods -- was too full of shadows. The files revealed terrifying truths: secret love aff airs, betrayals inside theContinue

"You are opening a Pandora's box," Marton was warned when she filed for her family's secret police fi les in Budapest. But her family history -- during both the Nazi and the Communist periods -- was too full of shadows. The files revealed terrifying truths: secret love aff airs, betrayals inside the family circle, torture and brutalities alongside acts of stunning courage -- and, above all, deep family love.

In this true-life thriller, Kati Marton, an accomplished journalist, exposes the cruel mechanics of the Communist Terror State, using the secret police files on her journalist parents as well as dozens of interviews that reveal how her family was spied on and betrayed by friends and colleagues, and even their children's babysitter. In this moving and brave memoir, Marton searches for and finds her parents, and love.

Marton relates her eyewitness account of her mother's and father's arrests in Cold War Budapest and the terrible separation that followed. She describes the pain her parents endured in prison -- isolated from each other and their children. She reveals the secret war between Washington and Moscow, in which Marton and her family were pawns in a much larger game.

By the acclaimed author of The Great Escape, Enemies of the People is a tour de force, an important work of history as it was lived, a narrative of multiple betrayals on both sides of the Cold War that ends with triumph and a new beginning in America.

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  • The Dossier

    The year is 1955; most of the world has taken sides in the cold war. In Budapest, behind the Iron Curtain, a little girl, 6 years old, lives one of the more privileged lives in that city. In an apartment on a tree-lined street on one of Buda’s hills, ... (read full critics)

    nytimes published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

  • Enemies of the People

    Marton’s suspenseful memoir is the story of her parents, the Hungarian intellectuals Ilona and Endre Marton. Hailed as the last members of the independent press behind the Iron Curtain, the couple flouted the strictures of the repressive regime. They ... (read full critics)

    newyorker published on Fri, 27 Aug 2010

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  • An interesting book about the most liberal of all the Soviet block countries and what they tried to do to two decent human beings.

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 288 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 1416586121
  • ISBN-13: 9781416586128
  • Publisher: Simon and Schuster
  • Pub date: Oct 20, 2009
  • Also available as: eBook
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