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Born to a prosperous family in 1930s Hungary, Dr Tom Kabdebo was a schoolboy in the post-war Stalin years when ten percent of Hungarian men (including his father and uncle) were sentenced to prison and to the loss of all possessions.
To pay for his education, and to help support his stepmother and siblings, he worked at labouring jobs, including underground in a coal mine where the temperature was 40°C.
In 1956, as a student in Budapest, he took part in the Hungarian Revolution—his diary of those few extraordinary days is reproduced in this book. Because of his...
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Fülszöveg
'He was rendered
V 1. 1
cosmopolitan by ^
Hungarian history/the ^ | President of Hungary i writes of the author.
'His homeland r was twice trodden by occupying armies, and as a consequence, hundreds of thousands of its people were forced to flee their w country, making their living elsewhere.'
S X'A Hth^
A gripping personal story | ^ that is also the v
jSs
dramatic story of 20*^^ century ¦ Hungary.
• . c^ \
Born to a prosperous family in 1930s Hungary, Dr Tom Kabdebo was a schoolboy in the post-war Stalin years when ten percent of Hungarian men (including his father and uncle) were sentenced to prison and to the loss of all possessions.
To pay for his education, and to help support his stepmother and siblings, he worked at labouring jobs, including underground in a coal mine where the temperature was 40°C.
In 1956, as a student in Budapest, he took part in the Hungarian Revolution—his diary of those few extraordinary days is reproduced in this book. Because of his involvement, he had to flee the country, along with 200,000 others.
Tom Kabdebo's first-hand experience of the often cruel reality of life in Central and Eastern Europe after World War II, and of the hardships (as well as the infinite possibilities) of life as a refiigee, has been captured unforgettably in this compelling, deeply honest book.
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