Cry Hungary!: Uprising 1956

by Reg Gadney

Book by Gadney, Reg

169 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1986

About the author

Reginald Bernard John Gadney (20 January 1941 – 1 May 2018) was a painter, thriller-writer and an occasional screenwriter or screenplay adaptor. Gadney was also an officer in the Coldstream Guards in the 1960s and later wrote the biopic screenplay Goldeneye (about author Ian Fleming) which was filmed in 1989, directed by Don Boyd with Charles Dance playing Ian Fleming. Gadney cameoed as the real-life James Bond, the man who lent his name to Fleming's eponymous spy.
Gadney was married twice; firstly to Annette Kobak and secondly to the restaurant critic Fay Maschler, whom he met at a party in 1992. He had two children from his first marriage and three step children from his marriage to Maschler.

Reviews

[Patrick Sherman]

Amazing look at what Russia’s relationship with Hungary was really like it also gives the presence to historical context with regard to Orban and his unbelievable sell out move to the Russians

[Cold War Conversations Podcast]

With many photos this is an account of the ill fated Hungarian Uprising of 1956 against Soviet rule which at the time was overshadowed by the Suez Crisis.

Although written before the fall of the Berlin Wall the book provides a concise chronology of the Uprising as well as some very haunting photos.