Will to Freedom: A Perilous Journey Through Fascism and Communism

by Egon Balas

Book Overview

Will to Freedom is an eyewitness account of the social and political upheaval that shook Eastern Europe from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s. As an underground resistance fighter, political prisoner, fugitive, and Communist Party official, Egon Balas charts his journey from idealistic young Communist to disenchanted dissident.

Attracted by its anti-Nazi stance, Balas joined the Hungarian Communist Party in 1942, after Hungary had entered...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815609302
• ISBN13: 9780815609308
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 484 Pages
• Weight: 1.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"