The Forbidden Sky

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A graduate of Budapest University where he received- an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics, Endre Marton was Associated Press correspondent in Budapest from 1947 to 1957. During that time he covered all the major political trials including those of József Cardinal Mindszenty, Foreign Minister László Rajk, and American businessman Robert Vogeler. During the Stalinist period he was the only AP correspondent in the satellite countries. Arrested in February 1955 with his wife, a journalist for United Press, he was sentenced to thirteen years in prison, but in the summer of 1956 the more liberal climate of the prerevolutionary period freed the couple and Marton resumed work for the AP. He was the only Western correspondent to cover the 1956 revolution from its first day to the very end. In January 1957 when they were again threatened with arrest, the Martons left Hungary for the United States, where Endre Marton is State Department correspondent for the AP... Tovább

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A graduate of Budapest University where he received- an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics, Endre Marton was Associated Press correspondent in Budapest from 1947 to 1957. During that time he covered all the major political trials including those of József Cardinal Mindszenty, Foreign Minister László Rajk, and American businessman Robert Vogeler. During the Stalinist period he was the only AP correspondent in the satellite countries. Arrested in February 1955 with his wife, a journalist for United Press, he was sentenced to thirteen years in prison, but in the summer of 1956 the more liberal climate of the prerevolutionary period freed the couple and Marton resumed work for the AP. He was the only Western correspondent to cover the 1956 revolution from its first day to the very end. In January 1957 when they were again threatened with arrest, the Martons left Hungary for the United States, where Endre Marton is State Department correspondent for the AP covering foreign affairs and the diplomatic beat. For his coverage of the Hungarian Revolution he received the New York Overseas Press Club's President Award, the National Headliners Club Award and, jointly with his wife. Long Island University's George Polk Award. The Martons now live in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
In August 1956 Endre Marton walked out of Budapest's dreaded Fö utca prison into the first tremors of a historic revolution. As a Hungarian citizen working for an American wire service, Marton had been arrested, tried for treason and now, prophetically, released. Two months later when the bloody revolt began, he was the only Western correspondent in the country.
Standing along the barricades with "the kids" — demonstrators who quickly became freedom fighters; talking with K. P. S. Menon, sent by Nehru to determine the true meaning of events in Hungary; running through the besieged and blacked-out city to a forgotten Communist agency teletype with the story of the massacre at Parliament Square; watching tremulously as the wire came alive and AP Vienna responded, "Endre Is that really you?" — at every moment Marton's unique position brought him into the very center of the tumult, as participant as well as observer.
Now in The Forbidden Sky he details the dramatic and much-debated history of the Hungarian Revolution, recalling the events which he and his wife, a fellow journalist, witnessed, answering questions which have long remained unexplained in the West: the mysterious origin of the successful workers' strike; the demise of
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General Péter, head of the secret police; the role of Kádár in the capture of Imre Nagy and the celebrated Colonel Maiéter; the history of Noel and Hertha Field. Writing eloquently of the heroism, tragedy and pathos which marked this struggle, Marton has created a tense portrait of the first and thus far only major armed national uprising against Communism, a sophisticated, intimate biography of a revolution which died in blood.
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