![]() ![]() Now, with the collapse of the Soviet Empire and the opening of archives, we have evidence from the police records that the accounts of terror, torture and imprisonment related by the refugees were true. ![]() He also states that he had to rely on what the refugees told him as the Iron Curtain prevented him from going to Hungry to verify the facts of the case. Unlike recent news reporters who have been caught passing off composite characters with fictitious names as fact, Michener, in the last chapter, clearly states that he has blended multiple characters into single composite characters and has used fictitious names for all characters in the interest of protecting those they left behind. I thought the book had originally been classified as historical fiction but was either mistaken or, as the result of events of the past decade, the book may have been reclassified as history. Michener is a good story teller and this is basically Michener's retelling of the stories told to him by the refugees. ![]()
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