[Tour details] On Wednesday, October 22, 2003 David Irving signed copies of the Hungarian edition of his famous 1981 history of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising in two Budapest bookstores. In one, a visitor handed him a trophy from the revolution – a heavy (8 kilo) submachine gun wrested by his father from an AVO secret policeman and used to attack Red Army troops during the uprising — there are twelve notches on the wooden stock. [Booklaunch photos]
Before being filmed for a long interview with Channel One, Mr Irving signs books; hotel sales executive Diana A, buys one of the first
As the book Uprising vanishes from the shelves, the bookstore owner (right) is delighted
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