Synopses & Reviews
"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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“Powerful and absolutely absorbing. . . .Enemies of the People has all the magnetism, and, yes, the excitement, of the very best spy fiction. But would that it were fiction. . . . An honestly inspiring story.”
--Alan Furst, The New York Times Book Review
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“Marton’s story is one of bravery, suffering, survival and vindication. She tells it in straightforward, lucid prose . . . carefully reported, almost clinical account of what it is like to live in a totalitarian state and how hard it is to escape from it. . . . It’s a terrific story, and Marton tells it very well.”
--Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post
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“Wonderful. . . . A family story that reads like a novel. . . . A book that is honest, frank, and true . . . recalls the best works of Koestler and Orwell, but contained within a family story, which remains for all its horrors, touching, life-loving, even, in its own unsentimental way, inspirational.”
--Michael Korda, The Daily Beast
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Renowned author Kati Marton tells how her journalist parents survived the Nazis in Budapest and were imprisoned by the Soviets.
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"New York Times"-bestselling author Marton tells how her journalist parents survived the Nazis in Budapest and were imprisoned by the Soviets before they were able to flee and make it to America.
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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.
In this true-life thriller Kati Marton, an award-winning journalist, exposes the cruel mechanics of the Communist Terror State using the secret police files on her parents, as well as dozens of interviews that reveal how her family was spied on and betrayed by friends, colleagues, and even their childrens babysitter. In this moving and brave memoir, Marton searches for and finds her parents and love.
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The inspiring story of a young Armenian manandrsquo;s harrowing escape from the massacre of his people and of his granddaughterandrsquo;s quest to retrace his steps
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The inspiring story of a young Armenianandrsquo;s harrowing escape from genocide and of his granddaughterandrsquo;s quest to retrace his steps Growing up, Dawn MacKeen heard fragments of her grandfather Stepanandrsquo;s story, of how he was swept up in the deadly mass deportation of Armenians during World War I and of how he miraculously managed to escape.
Longing for a fuller picture of Stepanandrsquo;s life andmdash; and the lost home her family fled andmdash; Dawn travels to Turkey and Syria, across a landscape still rife with tension. Using his newly discovered journals as a guide, she reconstructs her grandfatherandrsquo;s odyssey to the far reaches of the Ottoman Empire. There, he found himself alone and on a grueling death march along the banks of the Euphrates River.
Part reportage, part memoir, The Hundred Year Walk alternates between Stepanandrsquo;s tale of resilience and Dawnandrsquo;s remarkable journey, giving us a rare eyewitness account of the twentieth centuryandrsquo;s first large-scale genocide. Itandrsquo;s filled with edge of your seat escapes and accounts of lifesaving kindnesses in the harsh desert. And itandrsquo;s in the desert that Dawn finds the unexpected: the secret to Stepanandrsquo;s survival.
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About the Author
Kati Marton is the author of seven books, most recently, Enemies of the People: My Family’s Journey to America, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and the subject of an upcoming motion picture. Her other books include The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World and the New York Times bestseller Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our History, as well as Wallenberg, The Polk Conspiracy, and A Death in Jerusalem. She is an award-winning former NPR and ABC News correspondent. She lives in New York City.