CAMUS, ALBERT. (PREFACE). — The Truth about the Nagy Affair. Facts. Documents. Comments.

London: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1959. 1st edition. Published for Cultural Freedom. With a Preface by Albert Camus. Imre Nagy was a Hungarian communist politician who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers (de facto Prime Minister) of the Hungarian People's Republic from 1953 to 1955. In 1956 Nagy became leader of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 against the Soviet-backed government, for which he was sentenced to death and executed two years later. "Few trials in history were as strange as that of Imre Nagy and his friends..There are serious contradictions of fact and of logic between the successive versions worked up for different purposes, and these contradictions bring out the truth much more clearly than any possible denial or defence." 26cms x 18.5cms x 2cms. Pp.x/215, owner's details to front free endpaper, toning to endpapers. Black cloth, dustwrapper worn with creasing and smal tears to top and tail of spine and corner tips. G+/G.