Description
| Product ID: | 9780060772628 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Journey to a Revolution |
| Subtitle: | A Personal Memoir and History of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 |
| Authors: | Author: Michael Korda |
| Page Count: | 240 |
| Subjects: | Biography: general, Biography: general |
| Description: | Presents 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. The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was perhaps the most dramatic single event of the Cold War and a major turning point in history. Though it ended unsuccessfully, the spontaneous uprising of Hungarians against their country''s Communist party and the Soviet occupation forces in the wake of Stalin''s death demonstrated to the world at large the failure of Communism. In full view of the Western media—and therefore the world—the Russians were obliged to use force on a vast scale to subdue armed students, factory workers, and intellectuals in the streets of a major European capital. In October 1956, Michael Korda and three fellow Oxford undergraduates traveled to Budapest in a beat-up Volkswagen to bring badly needed medicine to the hospitals—and to participate, at street level, in one of the great battles of the postwar era. Journey to a Revolution is at once history and a compelling memoir—the author''s riveting account of the course of the revolution, from its heroic beginnings to the sad martyrdom of its end. |
| Imprint Name: | HarperPerennial |
| Publisher Name: | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2007-08-21 |
