TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zombory-Moldován,Béla
AU  - Zombory-Moldovan,Peter
TI  - The burning of the world: a memoir of 1914 
T2  - New York Review Books classics
SN  - 9781590178096 (paperback)
AV  - D640 .Z64 2014
U1  - BB 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - New York Review Books
KW  - Zombory-Moldován, Béla,
KW  - World War, 1914-1918
KW  - Personal narratives, Hungarian
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Hungary
KW  - Soldiers
KW  - Biography
KW  - Veterans
KW  - Artists
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
KW  - History
KW  - 1867-1918
N2  - "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"--
ER  -