The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World
by:
Anna Fields (author)
Kati Marton (author)
The stunning story of the breathtaking journey of nine extraordinary men from Budapest to the New World, what they experienced along their dangerous route, and how they changed America and the world.Kati Marton is an award-winning former NPR and ABC News correspondent. The recipient of a George...
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The stunning story of the breathtaking journey of nine extraordinary men from Budapest to the New World, what they experienced along their dangerous route, and how they changed America and the world.Kati Marton is an award-winning former NPR and ABC News correspondent. The recipient of a George Foster Peabody Award for broadcast journalism, she is the author of Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our History, a New York Times bestseller; Wallenberg; The Polk Conspiracy; A Death in Jerusalem; and the novel An American Woman. Marton lives in New York with her husband, Richard Holbrooke. Anna Fields has received five Audie nominations from the Audio Publishers Association and is proud to have won in 2004 for All Over Creation by Ruth Ozeki. She has also been honored by Audiofile magazine with more than a dozen Earphones Awards. She has voiced over 250 audiobooks.
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Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781400103096 (1400103096)
Publish date: November 1st 2006
Publisher: Tantor Media
Edition language: English
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...
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 ...