The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain by Matthew Longo

The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain

Matthew Longo

320 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction history politics emotional informative medium-paced
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A dramatic and intensely moving reconstruction of the greatest border breach in Cold War history and its tumultuous aftermath. In August 1989, a group of Hungarian activists did the unthinkable: they entered the forbidden militarised zone of the I...

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