Journey To A Revolution: A Personal Memoir and History of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 - Softcover

Michael Korda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 006077262X ISBN 13: 9780060772628

Verlag: New Publisher, 2021

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Book by Korda Michael

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"Journey to a Revolution" is at once a history and a compelling memoir, the story of four twenty-four year old Oxford undergraduates who took off for Budapest in a beat-up old Volkswagon convertible in October 1956, to bring badly needed medicine to the Budapest hospitals and to participate, at street level, in one of the great, heroic battes of post-war history. Korda paints a vivid and richly detailed picture of the events and the people, explores such major questions as the extent to which the British and the American intelligence services were involved in the uprising and made the Hungarians feel they could expect military support from the West, and describes, day by day, the course of the revolution, from its heroic beginnings, to the sad martyrdom of its end.

Biografía del autor:

Michael Korda is the author of Ulysses S. Grant, Ike, Hero, and Charmed Lives. Educated at Le Rosey in Switzerland and at Magdalen College, Oxford, he served in the Royal Air Force. He took part in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and on its fiftieth anniversary was awarded the Order of Merit of the People's Republic of Hungary. He and his wife, Margaret, make their home in Dutchess County, New York.

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• Verlag: New Publisher
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• ISBN 10: 006077262X
• ISBN 13: 9780060772628
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240