Author: LENDVAI, PAUL
Title: Blacklisted : a journalist's life in Central Europe
Description: London ; New York : I. B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the United States By St. Martin's Press 1998. First English Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 213 pages; Description: xvi. 213 p. 8 p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Translation of: Auf schwarzen Listen. Includes index. Subjects: Lendvai. Paul (1929-) --Journalists --Hungary --Biography --Europe --Politics and government --1945 --Europe. Eastern --Politics and government --1945. Summary: Paul Lendvai. born a Hungarian Jew. was arrested by the Nazis as a teenager. survived the Holocaust. 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 one of the world's best-informed journalists and commentators on Eastern Europe. In this prize-winning memoir. Lendvai paints a chilling picture of ethnic hatred. political turbulence and murderous anti-Semitism which have characterized the history of 20th century Central Europe. His encounters with killers. torturers. onlookers and victims. traitors and heroes make for gripping reading. by Paul Lendvai ; translated by Jean Steinberg with the Author.ISBN: 1860642683. Weight in Kg appr.:

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