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iUniverse, Inc., the leading provider of publishing technology solutions for authors, is pleased to announce that A Reluctant Revolutionary by Leonard W. Wilson available at 25000 outlets worldwide is also available as an ebook and can be ordered directly from iUniverse.

A Reluctant Revolutionary

In 1956, Ferenc’s search for his missing uncle leads him inadvertently to Agent Kóvacs of the AVH, the dreaded Secret Police. Although released after hours of torture, Ferenc knows he has no choice; he must escape Hungary.

In the regimented society of Communist countries, the young people entering university had advantages, but still it was amongst this group where the initial spark of dissention began. Fanning the flames is József, the first person to help Ferenc understand why his father abandoned him. On the twenty-third of October 1956, Ferenc sets aside his desire to escape as he joins József in the fight to bring the students’ demands to the government.

Soviet tanks rumble down the cobble-stoned streets of Budapest and cross the many bridges over the beautiful Danube River in an effort to stop what has quickly escalated. What began as an effort to get the government to read the Writer’s Union Sixteen Demands over the radio becomes an uprising when the students force their way into the Radio Station. Ernö Gerö is forced to resign and Imre Nagy is reinstated as Prime Minister.

Ferenc and József charge forward as Budapest explodes and students, joined by workers, soldiers and business people come together in an army of Freedom Fighters. Friends become enemies when József’s fiancée, Eszter comes between the two men. Lurking in the shadows is Agent Kóvacs and once more Ferenc thinks about escaping, but love, honor and death draw him back until he is forced to make his final decision.

A Reluctant Revolutionary
Fiction / Historical
Trade Paperback
Publication Date: Nov-2007
Price: $14.95
Size: 6 x 9
Author: Leonard W. Wilson
ISBN: 0-595-44565-9
216 Pages
On Demand Printing

To order your copy click on the iUniverse link under Blogroll or email me, Leonard Wilson at lewww@telus.net for an autographed copy.

Also available through Ingram Book Group, Baker & Taylor, Indigo, 1-800-AUTHORS or your local bookstore.

In its January 1957 issue, Time Magazine named the Hungarian Freedom Fighters of 1956 their choice as Time Man of the Year.

On Saturday June 16, 2007 a bronze statue commemorating the Freedom Fighter of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution was dedicated at the Cardinal Mindszenty Plaza in Cleveland Ohio.
Commissioned by the 50th Anniversary Committee of the Hungarian Revolution, the statue is of a young freedom fighter holding a Hungarian Flag with the symbol of the Soviet Union cut out - symbolizing the anti-Communist revolution.

The following dedications and comments were inscribed on the plinth:

October 23, 1956
“Freedom is not Free”
In honor of the many
Hungarian Freedom Fighters
who fought against
Soviet Oppression.

The Crack in the Berlin Wall began with a hole in a flag in Budapest

“October 23, 1956, is a day that will live
forever in the annals of free men and nations.
It was day of courage, conscience and triumph.
No other day since history began has shown more
clearly the eternal unquenchablility of man’s
desire to be free, whatever the odds against
success, whatever the sacrifices required.”
-John F. Kennedy

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