Explosion: The Hungarian Revolution of 1956
"...in my view, Mr. Matthews' book is the best of a large crop..." --Sunday Times, January 20, 2008"Here is a rare book about an epochal, historic world event written by the right man in the right place at the right time.The book is a (if not the) prime case study in twentieth-century Cold War politics. It delivers an unvarnished cautionary tale to anyone who still believes that individuals can control world events and their outcomes. I cannot recommend it highly enough to specialists, yet it remains a brutal display for all readers of the mendacity, greed, and bestiality of the Soviet regime until its demise in 1989..." --History, Spring 2008