A man from Kinver has written a book about his grandparents' journey from Hungary to the UK, after the Hungarian Uprising of 1956.
In April 1961, the Cold War between the East and the West was reaching fever pitch. The US-backed attempted invasion of Cuba was days away. Four months later the Berlin Wall would draw an Iron Curtain across Europe.
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