Revolution in Hungary: The 1956 Budapest Uprising
- ISBN-10
- 0500513260
- ISBN-13
- 9780500513262
- Category
- Photography
- Pages
- 249
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Author
- Erich Lessing
Description
Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, a landmark collection of photographs by the renowned Magnum photographer captures the short-lived uprising and its stark aftermath in more than two hundred duotone images, accompanied by essays marking the political and historical background of the event and its implications in terms of world history.
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