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

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The Bridge at Andau is James A. Michener at his most gripping. His classic nonfiction account of a doomed uprising is as searing and unforgettable as any of his bestselling novels. For five brief, glorious days in the autumn of 1956, the Hungarian revolution gave its people a glimpse at a different roughly future—until, at four o’clock in the morning on a Sunday in November, the citizens of Budapest aroused from sleep to the shattering sound of Russian tanks ravaging their streets. The revolution used to be over. But freedom beckoned in the type of a small footbridge at Andau, at the Austrian border. By an coincidence of history it became, for a couple of harrowing weeks, probably the most important crossings on the earth, as the soul of a nation fled across its unsteady planks.

BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from James A. Michener’s Hawaii.
 
Praise for The Bridge at Andau
 
“Precise, vivid . . . immeasurably stirring.”The Atlantic Monthly
 
“Dramatic, chilling, enraging.”San Francisco Chronicle
 
“Superb.”Kirkus Reviews
 
“Highly really useful reading.”Library Journal

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