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The burning of the world, a memoir of 1914, Béla Zombory-Moldován ; translated from the Hungarian and with an introduction and notes by Peter Zombory-Moldovan

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The burning of the world, a memoir of 1914, Béla Zombory-Moldován ; translated from the Hungarian and with an introduction and notes by Peter Zombory-Moldovan

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

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no index present

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non fiction

Main title

The burning of the world

Oclc number

867078105

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Béla Zombory-Moldován ; translated from the Hungarian and with an introduction and notes by Peter Zombory-Moldovan

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New York Review Books classics

Sub title

a memoir of 1914

Summary

"Publishing during the 100th Anniversary of World War I , an NYRB Classics Original. The budding young Hungarian artist Bela Zombory-Moldovan was abroad on vacation when World War I broke out in August 1914. Called up by the army, he soon found himself hundreds of miles away, advancing on Russian lines--or perhaps on his own lines--and facing relentless rifle and artillery fire. Badly wounded, he returned to normal life, which now struck him as unspeakably strange. He had witnessed, he realized, the end of a way of life, of a whole world. Recently discovered among private papers and published here for the first time in any language, this extraordinary reminiscence is a deeply moving addition to the literature of the terrible war that defined the shape of the twentieth century"--, Provided by publisher

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