{"product_id":"bittersweet-freedom-what-would-you-be-willing-to-sacrifice-to-live-in-freedom-would-it-be-worth-the-price-paperback","title":"Bittersweet Freedom: What Would You Be Willing To Sacrifice To Live In Freedom? Would It Be Worth The Price? - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJudith Bognar Bean\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBITTERSWEET FREEDOM \u003c\/strong\u003e- A \u003cem\u003eMagnificent Drama\u003c\/em\u003e of human suffering, courage, man's mortality, and selfless love. Gripping, funny, sad, galvanizing. Difficult to put down. A lesson inspiring each of us to appreciate every moment of life, and to love one another as if there were no tomorrow. A timeless and stirring work. 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Thousands of poorly armed Freedom Fighters gave their brave lives for Freedom's Sake as they pushed doggedly on against their superiorly armed oppressors to extinguish the Tyranny of Soviet rule from their beloved country of Hungary. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWritten as a \"story\", not using traditional memoir format\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e the author has composed a shocking account, of how, with a death-sentence pronounced upon him by the Soviet Government, her father, her mother and the author (age two), make a harrowing, death-defying escape, fleeing at a moment's notice on foot through treacherous enemy terrain, to free themselves from the perils of tortuous persecution during the bleak, mournful days of the \u003cstrong\u003e1956 Hungarian Revolution\u003c\/strong\u003e, seeking a small, narrow bridge shrouded in the mists of a swampy marshland. 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