In Silence I Speak - The Story of Cardinal Mindszenty Today and of Hungary's 'New Order'

New York: Farrar, Straus And Cudahy. 1956. First American Edition. Hardcover. "That it has been possible to get out of Hungary, despite terror and censorship, so detailed, intimate and factual an account of what has been going on is due to the fact that men and women have constantly risked their well-being and indeed their lives to make that information available to us. The result is a book which will stand as definitive in our time. Every detail of the Cardinal's present existence - from the moment of his sentence to life imprisonment on February 8, 1949 to his staged 'release' following the Geneva Conference and his subsequent reimprisonment - is recounted in full, dramatic detail. Dr. Shuster's book describes the piecemeal dismemberment of a nation and its reconstruction into a 'New Order' of tyranny and poverty under the iron fist of little-known Moscow-trained Communist boss Matyas Rakosi." - dust jacket. "József Mindszenty (1892-1975) was a Hungarian cardinal of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Esztergom and leader of the Catholic Church in Hungary from 1945 to 1973. During World War II, he was imprisoned by the pro-Nazi Arrow Cross Party. After the war, he opposed communism and communist persecution in his country. As a result, he was tortured and given a life sentence in a 1949 show trial." - Wikipedia. First U.S. edition published by Farrar, Straus and Cudahy. xix, [3], 296 pp. Index. Sixteen pages of excellent black and white photographic plates. Moderate wear to book. Binding tight. Prior owner's details upon front free endpaper, otherwise contents clean and unmarked. Small bookseller label inside back board. Somewhat above-average wear to complete dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy of this important history. Lest we forget.; Dust Jacket Design; 8vo .