Dear TIME-Reader:

HUNGARY'S FIGHT FOR FREEDOM (96 pp.) The Editors of LIFE--Time Inc. (50-c-).

WHEN the Hungarians first rose in courageous revolt, their Communist government quickly cut communications with the outside world. But Western newsmen were soon shuttling across the Austro-Hungarian border. Their first piecemeal reports came back in fragments as staccato as burp-gun bursts, and first photographs could give only scattered glimpses of the struggle. This week the editors of LIFE present a report in detail and depth of the critical period of the revolution in a book called Hungary's Fight for Freedom, compiled from on-the-spot reports by TIME and LIFE correspondents and other news sources, and from a worldwide collection of photographs.

The book is now on sale at newsstands throughout the U.S. Copies also may be obtained by writing directly to LIFE Magazine, 9 Rockefeller Plaza, New York 20. All profits from the book (produced at cost by R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co., Chicago printers for TIME and LIFE) will be donated to Hungarian relief funds.

Hungary's Fight for Freedom includes eyewitness accounts of the fighting by LIFE Correspondent Tim Foote, who was wounded in the Budapest fighting, by French Photographer John Sadovy, whose eloquent pictorial report for LIFE was reprinted in newspapers around the world, and by an unidentified Hungarian rebel.

Wrote Editor-in-Chief Henry R. Luce in the foreword: "This book is a tribute to the Hungarian dead, to whom we owe our pity, our pride and our praise. But this book is also a salute to the ways men find--ways routine and ways heroic--to tell each other the story of great deeds and their meaning. So it is always with the story of freedom."

Cordially yours,

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