The Hungarian Revolution of 1956
Szöveg: hungariandefence.com | 2011. április 6. 12:44John Sadovy, photographer for the American magazine Life, who recorded the violence and fear in Budapest in 1956: “Then my nerves went. Tears started to come down my cheeks. I had spent three years in the war, but nothing I saw then could compare with the horror of this.”This year we celebrate the 55th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Our website will feature several articles in praise of the Hungarian War of Independence – which was also of significance to world politics – and we are going to publish an English-language book that gives special focus to 1956 (1456–1956 – 555 Years, 55 Years – From the Noon Bell to the Lads of Pest – forthcoming at the end of April).
János M. Rainer, the author of the presently published two-part study is a well-known historian specialized in 1956. He looks at a special aspect of the events of ‘56 in Hungary by discussing the impact of the Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence on the 20th century history of Europe.
