Victor Sebestyen

Broschiertes Buch

Revolution 1989

The Fall of the Soviet Empire

Beschreibung

'A compelling and illuminating account of a great drama in the history of our times which showed once again that ordinary men and women really can change the world' Jonathan Dimbleby, MAIL ON SUNDAY

Autor

Victor Sebestyen is the internationally acclaimed author of TWELVE DAYS (W&N, 2006), REVOLUTION 1989 (W&N, 2009), LENIN THE DICTATOR (W&N 2017) and BUDAPEST (W&N, 2022). He was born in Budapest. He was a child when his family left Hungary as refugees. As a journalist, he worked for numerous British newspapers, including the Evening Standard, Daily Mail and The Times. He reported widely from Eastern Europe when Communism collapsed and the Berlin Wall came down in 1989. He covered the wars in former Yugoslavia and the breakup of the Soviet Union. At the Evening Standard he was foreign editor, media editor and chief leader writer. He was an associate editor of Newsweek.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Orion, London / W&N
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 130mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9780753827093
• ISBN-10: 0753827093
• Artikelnr.: 28532293

Rezensionen

This pacy and vivid survey of the remarkably swift collapse of the Soviet empire is a considerable achievement. DAILY TELEGRAPH