Twelve Days: Revolution 1956 - How the Hungarians Tried to Topple Their Soviet Masters

Zusatztext Victor Sebestyen is a marvellous guide to the Hungarian revolution: its causes, its unfolding and its aftermath. His nuanced, intelligent account reads in part like a thriller and he captures well the drama of those fateful days...This is a first-class book that should become the standard work on a revolution whose after-effects are still shaping the Europe in which we live today Informationen zum Autor Victor Sebestyen is the internationally acclaimed author of TWELVE DAYS (W&N, 2006), REVOLUTION 1989 (W&N, 2009), LENIN THE DICTATOR (W&N 2017) and BUDAPEST (W&N, 2022). He was born in Budapest. He was a child when his family left Hungary as refugees. As a journalist, he worked for numerous British newspapers, including the Evening Standard, Daily Mail and The Times . He reported widely from Eastern Europe when Communism collapsed and the Berlin Wall came down in 1989. He covered the wars in former Yugoslavia and the breakup of the Soviet Union. At the Evening Standard he was foreign editor, media editor and chief leader writer. He was an associate editor of Newsweek . Klappentext The defining moment of the Cold War: 'The beginning of the end of the Soviet empire.' (Richard Nixon)The defining moment of the Cold War: 'The beginning of the end of the Soviet empire.' (Richard Nixon) Zusammenfassung The defining moment of the Cold War: 'The beginning of the end of the Soviet empire.' (Richard Nixon)

Product details

• Authors: Victor Sebestyen
• Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.06.2007
• EAN: 9780753822142
• ISBN: 978-0-7538-2214-2
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 197 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / Revolutionary, HISTORY / Europe / Austria & Hungary, Hungary, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Marxism & Communism