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...novels, Koestler admits that he is laying bare his soul before his readers. He also has the advantage (questionable to be sure) of a familiarity with Freudian psychoanalysis. One wonders whether the author has not gone a bit overboard when he uses this method to explain his youth in Budapest. It is difficult to believe that a man can become so detached from himself as to reveal so much of his personality...
Salvation a la Munchausen. The first of them began in 1905 in Budapest. His father was a promoter and would be inventor who soon struck it rich with a "radioactive" soap. His mother was a hysteric who blew hot & cold until little Arthur had emotional chilblains. To make bad worse, Arthur turned out to be unusually short, yet something of a child prodigy too, "admired for my brains and detested for my character by children and teachers alike." He had little home training in the Jewish faith of his fathers, and early in life his belief in a personal...
...after the Hitler-Stalin pact, Moscow persuaded Germany to pressure Hungary into releasing Rakosi after 15 years in jail, mostly in solitary. He went straight to Russia, was dubbed a Soviet colonel-general, and 4½ years later was back in war-battered Budapest with the advancing Red armies...
Restoring work thinned out in Austria and Hungary during World War II. The countess spent most of the war in Budapest, then in 1944 went to a family castle in Czechoslovakia. When the Russians arrived, they let the family keep three of the castle's 80 rooms. The rest they appropriated, including the "spoons and forks and everything in the bank." Countess Kalnoky fled to Switzerland, thence to Mexico...
...Grenade in Each Hand. The British put her to work at once. Posing as a British journalist in Budapest, Agent Skarbek commuted by ski and car across the Tatra Mountains into Poland, to organize escape routes for Polish and Allied officers. Once she and her partner, a childhood friend named Andrew Kowerski, were captured by the Gestapo, but Christine, whose poise in the presence of danger soon became legendary, talked them both out of trouble. According to British Intelligence, she was the only woman who went through six years of Allied undercover work and throve on it. Most women gave...