Paul Lendvai, born a Hungarian Jew, was arrested by the Nazis as a
teenager, became a young communist activist in post-war Budapest,
was arrested by the communists, again survived as one of the
country's youngest political prisoners, and on his release was
blacklisted as a journalist by the communist regime. After fleeing
to Vienna following the 1956 Revolution, Lendvai was to become a
leading journalist and commentator on eastern Europe. In this
prize-winning memoir, he paints a picture of ethnic hatred,
political turbulence and murderous anti-Semitism, as well as the
swings between treachery and compromise which have characterized
the history of 20th-century central Europe. There are descriptions
of encounters with killers, torturers, onlookers and victims,
traitors and heroes. In preparing the book, Lendvai had access to
many previously unseen secret police files of Czechoslovakia, East
Germany and Hungary.
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