"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.
CONTRIBUTORS: Michael Korda
EAN: 9780060772628
COUNTRY: United States
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WEIGHT: 218 g
HEIGHT: 203 cm
PUBLISHED BY: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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GENRE: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Former Soviet Union
WIDTH: 135 cm
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Hungary, European history
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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