Catherine Eva Schandl, B.A. Honours, M.Ed., is a Canadian writer and researcher of Hungarian origin. Catherine is the author of the well received book "Sword of the Turul," which was featured in the 2006 special volume of the Wallenberg Bulletin. The book can also be found in Yad Vashem library, and was recently used as one of the sources for an article about Raoul Wallenberg's intelligence contacts in Hungary - in the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter.
The London-Budapest Game is the newly released sequel to "Sword of the Turul." Based on the author's historical research, "The London-Budapest Game" offers a unique glimpse into the hidden world of the British intelligence service in Nazi-occupied Hungary - and the shocking aftermath. Some allied agents and members of the underground narrowly escaped SMERSH, others were killed, but a few were secretly imprisoned in the Soviet Union, for years ...