| Vanished by the Danube: Peace, War, Revolution, and Flight to the West Contributor(s): Farkas, Charles (Author) |
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ISBN: 1438447582 ISBN-13: 9781438447582 Publisher: Excelsior Editions/State University of New Yo OUR PRICE: $31.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Austria & Hungary - History | Modern - 20th Century - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 1.4" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.50 lbs) 474 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |