The great escape : nine Jews who fled Hitler and changed the world / Kati Marton.

1st Simon & Schuster pbk. ed.

9780743261166 (pbk.)
074326116X (pbk.)
9780743261159
0743261151

New York : Simon & Schuster, c2006.

English

271 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.

DS135.H93 A153 2006

940.53/180922 B

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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-254) and index.

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