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"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…
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He tells half of this history as an expert, the other half as an idiot.
He and other naïve British students in 1956 were told by an uncle, “You need a war. We had Spain. You can have Budapest.” They drove to Hungary when everyone else was leaving that nightmare. They did not know what they were getting into, but soon found out.
He’s witty and honest about their foolishness. But once there, he started writing about the street warfare he witnessed. It was the start of his career as a journalist and author.
Korda is a proper historian -…
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