Dedicated to the memories of István Angyal, János Danner, and the heroic children of Budapest and also written for my grandchildren, Ivan, Katie, and Ava

Hungary conquered and in chains has done more for freedom and justice than any people . . . we have only one way of being true to Hungary, and that is never to betray, among ourselves and everywhere, what the Hungarian heroes died for.
—Albert Camus

Advance praise for A Testament of Revolution

“Béla Lipták was at the heart of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 . . . his account of the events at Budapest’s Technical University is certainly the most illuminating and authoritative in the English language, and will perhaps be, quite simply, the best account ever written.”—Tibor Fischer, author, Under the Frog

“The spirit of that time, the growing crescendo of boldness, the solidarity of struggle, the rapture of apparent triumph and the despair of defeat and flight are all brought movingly to life.”—Michael T. Kaufman, columnist, The New York Times

“Of heart rendering interest to those who fought with him and to those in free lands who demonstrated and protested the failure of democratic lands to assist.”—Ed Kirchner, Pax Romana Representative to the United Nations

“ . . . a must read for people on both sides of the Atlantic who are curious about sentimental and intellectual education of those responsible for the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.”—Charles Fenyvesi, author, When the World Was Whole, columnist, The Washington Post

Texas A&M University Press, College Station

*Liptak cloth ISBN 1-58544-120-1 (match to bar code)