Thieves in the Night

Arthur Koestler

1946

But the distant lulls were merely the frame of the picture; the feast for Joseph’s eyes was the green Valley of Jezreel itself, the cradle of the Communes. Twenty years ago a desolate marsh cursed with all the Egyptian plagues, it had now become a continuous chain of settlements which stretched like a string of green pearls across the country’s…

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Arthur Koestler

1905–1983

Hungarian-British author and journalist Arthur Koestler was born in Budapest and educated in Vienna. He worked as a journalist in Palestine in the late 1920s, and then returned to Europe, where he was arrested and imprisoned during the Spanish Civil War and again in France. Koestler’s novel Darkness at Noon (1940), advocating against totalitarian regimes, brought him fame. Koestler settled in England, where he supported political causes and wrote essays, novels, and memoirs. His was one of the earliest voices describing and protesting the Holocaust. His death was self-inflicted.

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