The Picnic by Matthew Longo

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/225658 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Picnic Author: Matthew Longo Narrator: Tom Parks Format: mp3 Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins Release date: 01-25-24 Ratings: Not rated yet Genres: Europe Publisher's Summary: In August 1989, a group of Hungarian activists did the unthinkable: they entered the forbidden militarised zone of the Iron Curtain - and held a picnic. Drawing on dozens of original interviews with those involved - activists and border guards, escapees and secret police, as well as the last Communist prime minister of Hungary - Matthew Longo reconstructs not only this remarkable event but also its complex and bittersweet aftermath.