The Bridge at Andau : The Compelling True Story of a Brave, Embattled People (Paperback)

from TadAD

An account of the brief Hungarian Revolution of 1956 as well as its crushing ending with when the Soviet tanks rolled into Budapest. Michener who was living in Austria at the time and had access to refugees, whose stories are composed into the characters shown in the book. It's fairly gripping an...

from antiquary

A very vivid account of the Hungarian revolt of 1956 by the well-known writer James Michener, at that time a fervently anti-communist JFK Democrat. It is done extremely effectively by presenting personal stories of individual rebels who became refugees after the collapse of the revolt, and whom M...

from lamour

As is typical for a Michener book, this was very readable and full of historical information. I remember the Hungarian Revolution but being very young at the time, I do not remember many details from that time. Michener takes care of that for me. While the title refers to a bridge across which th...

from Alex_Szabo

These ruskies were pretty tough against unarmed men, woman, and children in tanks.

from Chris_El

A deeply moving book that tells the true story of the 1956 revolt in Hungary against Communism. The revolt failed and for a while one bridge from Hungary stood open for Hungarians to flee. Over 200,000 people made it out alive. The author was there interviewing people as they escaped. This is the...