Brook-Shepherd was demobilized in 1948, returned to England, and secured employment with the Daily Telegraph. When the Communists seized power in Czechoslovakia mere days later, the Telegraph swiftly sent him back to Europe. He spent time in blockaded Berlin, then returned to Vienna, a center of espionage activity at the time. He was sent on numerous missions into neighboring Eastern Bloc countries; most notably, he was reporting from Budapest during the October 1956 Hungarian Uprising.