I Kiss Your Hands Many Times Hearts, Souls, and Wars in Hungary

Name: I Kiss Your Hands Many Times Hearts, Souls, and Wars in Hungary
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ISBN: 9780385524858

ISBN-10: 0385524854

ISBN-13: 9780385524858

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Authors: Marianne Szegedy-Maszak

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A magnificent wartime love story about the forces that brought the author’s parents together and those that nearly drove them apart Marianne Szegedy-Maszák’s parents, Hanna and Aladár, met and fell in love in Budapest in 1940. He was a rising star in the foreign ministry—a vocal anti-Fascist who was in talks with the Allies when he was arrested and sent to Dachau. She was the granddaughter of Manfred Weiss, the industrialist patriarch of an aristocratic Jewish family that owned factories, were patrons of intellectuals and artists, and entertained dignitaries at their baronial estates. Though many in the family had converted to Catholicism decades earlier, when the Germans invaded Hungary in…

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List price: $30.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/27/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.540



Prologue


1940



You See, I Used to Live Here



The Arizona



The Draft Board



Ireg



September 18


1941



Never in Hungary



Jewish Questions



The Reason the World Looks So Lovely


1942



The Satanic Nature of His Character



Inertia and a Decisive Mindset



A Christian Enterprise



What About Hungary?


1943



Spiderwebs



The Usual Boundless Optimism



A Promotion into the Abyss


1944



March 19



At the Foreign Ministry



Saying Goodbye All Over Again



Enough Pride and Enough Humility



Honorable Confinement



Enter Becher



A Family Reunion



Services Rendered to the Country for Decades



A New Era of Captivity



Dachau


1945



The Siege



Displaced Persons



The Day of Deliverance



Broken and Without a Job



The Ice of Mistrust



You Looked for People You Knew



Going Home



Unchangeably, Hanna



The Love That Makes Life Beautiful and Happy


1946



A Forced Landing



The Feeling I Could Go Home



For Aladï¿½r Only-PRIVï¿½T!



The Happy Joint Endeavor



A Visit from the Home Team



Paris



Reunion



The Weiss Diaspora


1947



Salami Tactics



Demonstratively Dejected



Paces Back and Forth



Making the Best of It



Timsi



The Remorseful Revolutionary



The Large Wound Fate Inflicted


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


List of Illustrations