Zombory-Moldován, Béla, 1885-1967.

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

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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.


Hungary--History--1867-1918--Biography.

D640 / .Z64 2014

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