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Swimming Across: A Memoir
Swimming Across A Memoir
Author: Andrew S. Grove
SWIMMING ACROSS is a personal and cultural memoir tracing Andrew Grove's most formative years. Beginning on the eve of Nazi Germany's invasion of his native Hungary and ending with his flight from communism to America 16 years later, it combines a child's sense of wonder with an engineer's passion for order and detail. Grove's uplifting autobiog...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780446679701
ISBN-10: 0446679704
Publication Date: 11/2002
Pages: 304
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Publisher: Warner Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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This book is a rags to riches American dream true story.
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Andris Grof, shares his memoir,beginning as a young son of Polish Jewish parents in Budapest. He flees Nazi occupied Poland with his mother, seeking refuge with a Christian family outside the city. Ten yrs. after WWII, in 1956, his family faces the Hungarian uprising, being surrounded by Soviet tanks in the invasion of Budapest. Andris escapes to the West by marching through Budapest into Austria. He escapes successfully, and is a "free" man. He succeeds in coming to America and assumes the name Andrew S. Grove,and pursues studying chemistry. Read the wonderful story of one man's story of escape from a "red-curtain" country to freedom. A great read.


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