num_pages: 288
description: You are opening a Pandora's box Marton was warned when she filed for her family's secret police fi les in Budapest. But her family history -- during both the Nazi and the Communist periods -- was too full of shadows. The files revealed terrifying secret love aff airs betrayals inside the family circle torture and brutalities alongside acts of stunning courage -- and above all deep family love.In this true-life thriller Kati Marton an accomplished journalist exposes the cruel mechanics of the Communist Terror State using the secret police files on her journalist parents as well as dozens of interviews that reveal how her family was spied on and betrayed by friends and colleagues and even their children's babysitter. In this moving and brave memoir Marton searches for and finds her parents and love.Marton relates her eyewitness account of her mother's and father's arrests in Cold War Budapest and the terrible separation that followed. She describes the pain her parents endured in prison -- isolated from each other and their children. She reveals the secret war between Washington and Moscow in which Marton and her family were pawns in a much larger game.By the acclaimed author of The Great Escape  Enemies of the People is a tour de force an important work of history as it was lived a narrative of multiple betrayals on both sides of the Cold War that ends with triumph and a new beginning in America.
language: English
title: Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America
publisher: Simon & Schuster