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| AHF Book Highlight: Béla Lipták - "A Testament of Revolution" | ||||||||
Strikes in nearby Poland sparked the formation of an independent union of university students in Hungary that October. Matters escalated as factory workers joined Hungarian students to express solidarity with Poland. Hungarian secret police and Russian troops moved together to suppress the students. Readers will bear witness as armed but untrained citizens pledge to follow the lead of any student wearing a nationalist tricolor armband--and they will recoil in horror as many of these revolutionaries fall in undeclared street battles. In a memoir that is both history and a saga of his coming of age, Lipták relates his transformation from carefree university student to impromptu revolutionary leader. His story unfolds with unsparing honesty as he lays bare his conflicts, faults, failures of judgment and courage, and struggles with the enemy and with himself. A Testament of Revolution is the story of one man and Every Man caught up in events beyond his control, as waves of individual integrity and patriotism foundered on the rocky shoals of oppression and international politics. "The
spirit of that time, the growing crescendo of boldness, the solidarity of struggle, the rapture of apparent triumph and the despair of defeat and flight are all brought movingly to life" - Buy his books now on the AHF Amazon Store | Buy his books now on the AHF Amazon Store About the Author
Wife is Martha Szacsvay, a ceramics artist, son Adam is chief legal correspondent of the New York Times, daughter Agnes is president of Fresco, an interior design firm. Has five fantastic grandchildren: Ivan, Katie, Ava, Emmi and Adam. He is a member of the American Hungarian Federation. Buy his books now on the AHF Amazon Store Join online!
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Béla Lipták's "A Testament of Revolution" peels away more than four decades of intervening history
Born on June 7, 1936 in Hungary, Professor Béla Lipták helped draft the 16 points which defined the goals of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. He is a graduate of the Technical University of Budapest (1953-1956). After escaping from Soviet jail entered the United States as a refugee and was elected president of the American Hungarian Student Association at Bard College in 1957. He earned an ME degree from Stevens Institute of Technology (1959) and a Masters degree from CCNY (1962) and taught at Yale University (1975-1997). Mr. Lipták has published nearly 200 technical articles and some 20 technical books. These include the Environmental Engineers™ Handbook and four editions of the multi-volume Instrument Engineers' Handbook. Presently, he is working on solar-hydrogen technology, which will replace and solve the problems caused by our present oil based economy. He received the Control Hall of Fame award in 2001 and the Life Time Achievement award of ISA in 2005.