Young Men Go West

This debut nonfiction is a winner of the 19th annual National Indie Excellence Awards. On October 23, 1956, 200,000 people took to the streets of Budapest, Hungary, to protest the oppressive communist regime. But when the secret police began killing the unarmed student protestors, they turned into freedom fighters and fought back. For almost three weeks, the freedom fighters - most of whom were in their teens and twenties - waged guerrilla warfare against the Soviets and Hungarian secret police.