Chronicle Volume 1956

Hungary - this is the "beginning of the end of communism!" wrote Milovan Djilas, a former comrade-in-arms of Josip Tito, immediately after Soviet tanks crushed the Hungarian popular uprising. A statement that, from the distance of more than three decades, proves to be prophetic. In the late autumn of 1956, the world was on the brink of nuclear war. While the Soviet Union was rolling tanks on Budapest, France and Great Britain were pursuing "gunboat politics" on the Suez Canal in the style of old colonial powers.

The chronicle shows these events, but it also shows how people lived back then and brings history to life. This makes the 1956 chronicle a unique gift.