The burning of the world : a memoir of 1914 /
Béla Zombory-Moldován & Peter Zombory-Moldovan.
- New York : The New York Review of Books, 2014.
- xxi, 155 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
- New York Review Books classics .
"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"--
9781590178096 (paperback) 1590178092
2014013207
Zombory-Moldován, Béla, 1885-1967.
World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, Hungarian. World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects--Hungary. Soldiers--Hungary--Biography. Veterans--Hungary--Biography. Artists--Hungary--Biography. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.