The Bridge at Andau by James A. Michener
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
I started reading this around the time of Putin's annexation of the Crimea, so it has been interesting reading about a valiant if hopeless uprising against the Communist Soviet Union that gave birth to teh KGB, which spawned Putin. The heroism and triumph, if short-lived is gripping, if hard to believe. Were really so many tanks destroyed with gasoline filled Molotov cocktails? The hard-fighting and wily youths, the grim laborers of Csepel all make for a memorable tale. Michener personalizes these stories by following named individuals: a youth caught up in the fighting, a AVO man (part of the police state apparatus) and gives us their back story, too.
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