Description: Vanished by the Danube : Peace, War, Revolution, and Flight to the West Author : Charles Farkas 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.
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Book Title: Vanished by the Danube : Peace, War, Revolution, and Flight to the West
Number of Pages: 492 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: STATE University of New York Press
Publication Year: 2014
Topic: Europe / Austria & Hungary, Personal Memoirs, Modern / 20th Century, General
Item Height: 1 in
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Genre: Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 24.4 Oz
Author: Charles Farkas
Item Length: 9 in
Book Series: Excelsior Editions Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
