Ebook: The Burning of the World: A Memoir of 1914
- Tags: Artists, Artists--Hungary, Social aspects, Soldiers, Soldiers--Hungary, Veterans, Veterans--Hungary, World War 1914-1918, World War 1914-1918--Social aspects--Hungary, History, Biography, Personal narratives, Biographies, 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, Hungary -- History -- 1867-1918 -- Biography, Hu
- Series: New York Review Books classics
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: New York Review Books
- City: New York;Hungary
- Language: English
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"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"--
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