Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution

✍ Scribed by Victor Sebestyen

• Publisher: Center Street
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 477
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Victor Sebestyen, a journalist whose own family fled Hungary, gives us a totally fresh account, incorporating newly released official documents, his family's diaries, and eyewitness testimony. We witness the thrilling first days when—armed only with a few rifles, petrol bombs, and desperate courage—the people of Budapest rose up against their Soviet masters and nearly succeeded. As the world watched in amazement, it looked as though the Hungarians might humble the Soviet empire. But the Soviets were willing to resort to brutal lengths—and, sadly, the West was prepared to let them. Dramatic, vivid, and authoritative, Twelve Days adds immeasurably to our understanding of this historic event and reminds us of the unquenchable human desire for freedom.

✦ Table of Contents

The Hungarian Revolution
Title Page
Contents
Epigraph
Photos
Acknowledgments
Maps
Characters
Introduction
Prologue
Part I: Prelude
ONE
TWO
THREE
FOUR
FIVE
SIX
SEVEN
EIGHT
NINE
TEN
ELEVEN
TWELVE
THIRTEEN
FOURTEEN
FIFTEEN
SIXTEEN
SEVENTEEN
EIGHTEEN
Part II: Revolution
NINETEEN
TWENTY
TWENTY-ONE
TWENTY-TWO
TWENTY-THREE
TWENTY-FOUR
TWENTY-FIVE
TWENTY-SIX
TWENTY-SEVEN
TWENTY-EIGHT
TWENTY-NINE
THIRTY
THIRTY-ONE
Part III: Aftermath
THIRTY-TWO
THIRTY-THREE
THIRTY-FOUR
Postscript
Appendix
Sources
Bibliography
Index