No Royal Road

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glimpse intő the efforts of ordinary people trying to live ordinary lives undcr extraordinary circumstances. He started to recite a patriotic poént by Petőfi titled Song of Our Nation (Nemzeti Dal), a call to arms during the 1848 revolution and likehj to stir nationalistic sentiments just as strong a century la tér - Arisé Magy ars. Your Homeland is colling. The time is noiv. Nozv, or never. We can be slaves, or we can be free. That is the question. Make your choices. The crowd listened, thenjoined in, repeating the well-knoivn refrain after each stanza-"We swear by the God of the Magy ars that we won't be slaves any more! "-each raising their right arm, hattd in a fist with the index and middle fingers pointing to the sky, just as their ancestors did títtle more than a century eartier. I looked up and noticed the statue's right arm raised in exactly the same position... Something significaiit was happening and I xvas a participant as well as a witness to these events. Jumping for... Tovább

Fülszöveg

glimpse intő the efforts of ordinary people trying to live ordinary lives undcr extraordinary circumstances. He started to recite a patriotic poént by Petőfi titled Song of Our Nation (Nemzeti Dal), a call to arms during the 1848 revolution and likehj to stir nationalistic sentiments just as strong a century la tér - Arisé Magy ars. Your Homeland is colling. The time is noiv. Nozv, or never. We can be slaves, or we can be free. That is the question. Make your choices. The crowd listened, thenjoined in, repeating the well-knoivn refrain after each stanza-"We swear by the God of the Magy ars that we won't be slaves any more! "-each raising their right arm, hattd in a fist with the index and middle fingers pointing to the sky, just as their ancestors did títtle more than a century eartier. I looked up and noticed the statue's right arm raised in exactly the same position... Something significaiit was happening and I xvas a participant as well as a witness to these events. Jumping for her life from a moving train to escape Commimist repression following the 1956 Hungárián Revolution, Julié takes a journey to freedom. From her birth in the Jate 1930s in Budapest, Hungary, through the portrayal of her family's fight for survival, Julié must endure persecution by the Nazis, the ravaging effects of the Second World War, and diserimination under a repressive Communist dictatorship. The revolution unfolds and reaches its inevitable, and tragic, conclusion. Against this setting, young Julié hopes, dreams, fights for existence, and struggles for autonomy. Her astonishing life, Hke so many others, was uniquely shaped by 20th century history. With the fiftieth anniversary of the 1956 Hungárián Revolution rapidly approaching, this poignant tale is timely reading-lest we forget. Vissza