The Eyewitness Report: An Unpublished Work by Albert Maltz

An unpublished novel by one of the Hollywood Ten, who were blacklisted for their involvement with the Communist Party USA. Based on the true story of a group of Russian dissidents who staged a protest in support of free Czechoslovakia in 1968, The Eyewitness Report is a novel which explores the role and responsibility of the individual in the face of tragic historical events.

Albert Maltz (1908-85) was a prizewinning American playwright, fiction writer and screenwriter. His novel The Cross and the Arrow, about the German resistance to the Nazi regime, was distributed to 150,000 American soldiers during the Second World War. He worked on a number of films, including Casablanca, until he was blacklisted during McCarthyism. He is best remembered today for his novels A Tale of One January and The Journey of Simon McKeever.