The Great Escape - Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World (Paperback, Annotated edition)

Author Kati Marton follows these nine over the decades as they flee fascism and anti-Semitism, seek sanctuary in England and America, and set out to make their mark. The scientists Leo Szilard, Edward Teller, and Eugene Wigner enlist Albert Einstein to get Franklin Roosevelt to initiate the development of the atomic bomb. Along with John von Neuman, who pioneers the computer, they succeed in achieving that goal before Nazi Germany, ending the Second World War, and opening a new age. Arthur Koestler writes the most important anti-Communist novel of the century, Darkness at Noon. Robert Capa is the first photographer ashore on D-Day. He virtually invents photojournalism and gives us some of the century's most enduring records of modern warfare. Andre Kertesz pioneers modern photojournalism, and Alexander Korda, who makes wartime propaganda films for Churchill, leaves a stark portrait of post war Europe with The Third Man, as his fellow filmmaker, Michael Curtiz, leaves us the immortal Casablanca, a call to arms and the most famous romantic film of all time. Marton brings passion and breadth to these dramatic lives as they help invent the twentieth century.

General

Imprint:	Simon & Schuster
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2008
First published:	November 2007
Authors:	Kati Marton
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	271
Edition:	Annotated edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-7432-6116-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General Promotions
LSN:	0-7432-6116-X
Barcode:	9780743261166

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