At four o''clock in the morning on a Sunday in November 1956, the city of Budapest was awakened by the shattering sound of Russian tanks tearing the city apart. The Hungarian revolution -- five brief, glorious days of freedom that had yielded a glimpse at a different kind of future -- was over.@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt;But there was a bridge at Andau, on the Austrian border, and if a Hungarian could reach that bridge, he was nearly free.
