Book - BookDetective

Name: The Bridge at Andau

Author: James A. Michener
Year: 1957
Rank:

Rating:

Original Rating:

Pop Rating:

Genres/categories:
History, Non Fiction, Politics, Historical fiction, War/Military, Classic

Purchase/reserch links:

LibraryThing

Goodreads

Amazon

ISBNs:
9780449210505
9780812986747
0449210502
0812986741

At four o'clock in the morning on a Sunday in November 1956, the city of Budapest was awakened by the shattering sound of Russian tanks tearing the city apart. The Hungarian revolution -- five brief, glorious days of freedom that had yielded a glimpse at a different kind of future -- was over.

But there was a bridge at Andau, on the Austrian border, and if a Hungarian could reach that bridge, he was nearly free. It was about the most inconsequential bridge in Europe, but by an accident of history it became, for a few flaming weeks, one of the most important bridges in the world, for across its unsteady planks fled the soul of a nation...

Here is James A. Michener at his most gripping with a historic account of a people in desperate revolt, a true story as searing and unforgettable as any of his bestselling works of fiction.