In this audio, the reader deals well with French accents, but she does not inspire me as some readers have, with other books, to feel as if I am witnessing a beautiful performance. This may also be, because the book did not inspire me either. I found it flat, a bit too emotional, and although it rev...
Interesting individuals stories about...well, just read the title. Although, "changed the world" seemed a little strong to me after I finished it. Nonetheless they were nine very influential, or at least intriguing, people. The book suffers a little from the lack of cohesion, which is not surprising...
Reading some of the comments on the three-starred and fewer-starred reviews here is surprising. One claim is that it is badly written. In what universe? I can agree there is perhaps a bit of dryness, but that's it. The story's substance more than makes up for this. Another criticism, that Marton is ...
Lynne, thanks for finding this! I simply must read this book, another about WW2 in Hungary, the Hungarian Upprising of 1956 and the people who survived these times. The author writes about her parents' lives after their death. She had access to the Hungarian Secret Police files. Why read fictional c...
Journalist Kati Marton's latest book is an excellent biography of her parents, with some autobiographical content as she writes about her own observations. Marton's parents were Associated Press journalists in Hungary, surviving Nazis, the AVO (Hungarian secret police, who imprisoned both of Marton...
Unabridged and Narrated by Anna FieldsFrom Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Noted journalist and bestselling author Marton (Hidden Power) offers a haunting tale of the wartime Hungarian diaspora. The nine illustrious Hungarians she profiles were all "double outsiders," for, as well as being natives ...
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