Takács was editor of the memoir, Clear the Line,[2] the historical account of Hungary's struggle to leave the Axis during the Second World War.

In Winston Churchill's six volume book series, The Second World War, he relates his own directions from the telegram he sent concerning Hungary's offer of surrender in September 1943.

Its submergence in the Russian flood could not fail to be either the source of future conflicts or the scene of a national obliteration horrifying to every generous heart.”[4] Takács' Clear the Line has been placed in the Hoover Institution Archives[5] and has been reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement[6] by M. R. D. Foot.

In addition to biographical details about her mother and step-father who play major roles in Clear the Line, other notable members of the family discussed in Our Story are Dukai Takách Judit, Hungary's first woman poet[8] and Pálóczi Horváth Lajos, Takács' father who spoke nine languages and translated books by Thomas Hardy, Thomas Wolf and Juan Valera into Hungarian.

[15] She retired from Notre Dame College of Ohio as Professor Emeritus in 2012, but continued to tutor students in English Literature until her death at the age of 83.