The Undefeated
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Name on fep. Usual shelf-wear.
Few memoirs capture the brutal machinery of totalitarianism with such raw, unflinching clarity as George Paloczi-Horvath's The Undefeated. The book chronicles the author's harrowing personal odyssey through the darkest chapters of mid-twentieth-century Europe — from his years as an anti-fascist resistance fighter to his arrest, torture, and imprisonment under Hungary's Stalinist regime, where he endured years of psychological and physical torment at the hands of the secret police. What elevates this work beyond a simple survivor's testament is Paloczi-Horvath's extraordinary capacity for moral and intellectual reckoning. Writing with searing precision and restrained fury, he dissects not only the mechanics of oppression but the insidious way ideology can corrupt even the most committed believers — himself included. A vital document of Cold War political history and human endurance, The Undefeated leaves its reader confronting a single, unsettling question: what does it truly mean to remain unbroken?
Author: George Paloczi-Horvath
Format: Hardback
Published: 1959, Secker and Warburg
Genre: Biography
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Name on fep. Usual shelf-wear.
Few memoirs capture the brutal machinery of totalitarianism with such raw, unflinching clarity as George Paloczi-Horvath's The Undefeated. The book chronicles the author's harrowing personal odyssey through the darkest chapters of mid-twentieth-century Europe — from his years as an anti-fascist resistance fighter to his arrest, torture, and imprisonment under Hungary's Stalinist regime, where he endured years of psychological and physical torment at the hands of the secret police. What elevates this work beyond a simple survivor's testament is Paloczi-Horvath's extraordinary capacity for moral and intellectual reckoning. Writing with searing precision and restrained fury, he dissects not only the mechanics of oppression but the insidious way ideology can corrupt even the most committed believers — himself included. A vital document of Cold War political history and human endurance, The Undefeated leaves its reader confronting a single, unsettling question: what does it truly mean to remain unbroken?