The Bridge at Andau is James A. -- Library Journal. -- Kirkus Reviews Highly recommended reading. -- San Francisco Chronicle Superb. -- The Atlantic Monthly Dramatic, chilling, enraging. immeasurably stirring. . .
Praise for The Bridge at Andau Precise, vivid .
By an accident of hiStory it became, for a few harrowing weeks, one of the most important crossings in the world, as the soul of a nation fled across its unsteady planks.
But freedom beckoned in the form of a small footBridge at Andau, on the Austrian border.
The revolution was over.
For five brief, glorious days in the autumn of 1956, the Hungarian revolution gave its People a glimpse at a different kind of future--until, at four o\'clock in the morning on a Sunday in November, the citizens of Budapest awoke to the shattering sound of Russian tanks ravaging their streets.
His classic nonfiction account of a doomed uprising is as searing and unforgettable as any of his bestselling novels.
Michener at his most gripping.
The Bridge at Andau is James A