Books by Kati Marton

Author and journalist Kati Marton was born in Hungary and has spent two decades writing and reporting from the United States, Europe and the Far East. She is a director and former chairperson of the board of the Committee to Protect Journalists and a memb

PARIS by Kati Marton
by Kati Marton
BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR
Released: Aug. 14, 2012
"On a first-name basis with the political movers and shakers on a global stage, Marton has observed world politics in the making and makes space for readers on her catbird seat."
Paris provides a backdrop for this absorbing memoir of love and painful loss, played out on the larger stage of world politics. Read full book review >
ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE by Kati Marton
by Kati Marton
BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR
Released: Oct. 20, 2009
"A dark, compelling narrative of secrecy and betrayal."
An American journalist trolls the archives of the Hungarian secret police (AVO) to piece together her parents' imprisonment in and flight from Hungary in the mid-1950s. Read full book review >
THE GREAT ESCAPE by Kati Marton
by Kati Marton
BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR
Released: Nov. 1, 2006
"More a nicely assembled collection of anecdotes than a sustained narrative."
Andre Kertesz and Robert Capa blew up photographs. Edward Teller and Leo Szilard blew up atoms. They were Hungarian. They were Jews. It must have been something in the water. Read full book review >
A DEATH IN JERUSALEM by Kati Marton
by Kati Marton
CURRENT AFFAIRS
Released: Nov. 30, 1994
"Still, a rare glimpse behind the curtains of a terrorist act, instructive both for the light it sheds on a 46-year-old assassination and for the issues it raises relevant to today."
An intriguing examination of the circumstances surrounding the 1948 murder in Israel of UN mediator Count Folke Bernadotte. Read full book review >