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The great escape : nine Jews who fled Hitler and changed the world /
Journalist Marton brings to life an unknown chapter of World War II: the tale of nine men who grew up in Budapest's brief Golden Age, then, driven from Hungary by anti-Semitism, fled to the West, especially to the United States, and changed the world. These nine men, each celebrated for individ...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Simon & Schuster,
[2006]
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| Online Access: | Sample text Table of contents Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
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Journalist Marton brings to life an unknown chapter of World War II: the tale of nine men who grew up in Budapest's brief Golden Age, then, driven from Hungary by anti-Semitism, fled to the West, especially to the United States, and changed the world. These nine men, each celebrated for individual achievements, were actually part of a unique group who grew up in a time and place that will never come again, shaped by Budapest's lively café life before the darkness closed in. She follows the lives of four history-changing scientists who helped usher in the nuclear age and the computer (Edward Teller, John von Neumann, Leo Szilard, and Eugene Wigner); two major filmmakers (Michael Curtiz, who directed Casablanca, and Alexander Korda, who produced The Third Man); two immortal photographers (Robert Capa and Andre Kertesz); and one seminal writer (Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon).--From publisher description. |
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271 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map cm ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-254) and index. |
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9780743261159 0743261151 9780743261166 074326116X |