The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain
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Winner of the 2024 Orwell Prize for Political Writing
One of Slate's Ten Best Books of 2023 * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2023
The gripping story of a collective passion for freedom that shook the world.
In August 1989, a group of Hungarian activists organized a picnic on the border of Hungary and Austria. But this was not an ordinary picnic-it was located on the dangerous militarized frontier known as the Iron Curtain. Tacit permis...


























