Peter Unwin

PETER UNWIN (Middlesbrough, 1932) is a writer and retired diplomat. He was Ambassador to Hungary from 1983 to 1986 and Ambassador to Denmark from 1986 to 1988. He served as Deputy Secretary General of the Commonwealth from 1989 to 1993. Having retired from the Diplomatic Service, he has been writing books on history, and is an occasional contributor to The Times. Among his books are Voice in the Wilderness: Imre Nagy and the Hungarian Revolution (1991), Where East Met West: a Central European Journey (2000), 1956: Power Defied (2006), Newcomers’ Lives: the Story of Immigrants as Told in Obituaries from The Times (2013).

VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS: IMRE NAGY AND THE HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION – EXCERPT, PART II

CHAPTER 10 WAR The Soviet Union attacked Hungary in the early hours of 4 November. Its leaders probably committed themselves to that attack on the night of 30–31 October. It was carried to a militarily successful conclusion by 11 November. At the time and afterwards, the Soviet leaders had every

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VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS: IMRE NAGY AND THE HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION – EXCERPT

IMRE NAGY AND THE HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION1 Excerpt CHAPTER 9 REVOLUTION When Mikoyan deposed Rákosi on 17 July and sent him into exile in the Soviet Union, he was removing from the scene the strongest personality in Hungarian political life. Rákosi was hated, discredited. His judgement had failed, he was on the run. But there was no one else in the Party with anything like his experience of power and office.

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