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Vanished by the Danube : Peace, War, Revolution, and Flight to the West

By Charles Farkas

Book information

Publisher
State University of New York Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9781438447599, 9781438447575
LCC
CT968.F37.A3 2013eb
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (4458141 bytes)
Series
Excelsior Editions Ser.
Edition
1
Pages
496\0
Time added
2023-08-13 12:15:57
-- 1925- -- Childhood and youth. ; Hungarian Ameri1956. ; Hungary -- Social life and customs.CharlesFarkas

Description

Germany's invasion of Hungary in 1944 marked the end of a culture that had dominated Central Europe from the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. In this poignant memoir, Charles Farkas offers a testament to this vanished way of life--its society, morality, personal integrity, wealth, traditions, and chivalry--as well as an eyewitness account of its destruction, begun at the hands of the Nazis and then completed under the heel of Soviet Communism. Farkas's recollections of growing up in Budapest, a city whose grandeur embraced--indeed spanned--the Danube River; his vivid descriptions of everyday life in Hungary before, during, and after World War II; and his ultimate flight to freedom in the United States remind us that behind the larger historical events of the past century are the stories of the individual men and women who endured and, ultimately, survived them.

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