The Burning of the World: A Memoir of 1914
Publishing during the 100th Anniversary of World War I
An NYRB Classics Original
The budding young Hungarian artist Béla Zombory-Moldován was abroad on holiday 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.
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.
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 184
- Publisher
- NYRB Classics
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9781590178096
- Genres
- history, memoir, hungary, biography, war, autobiography
- Release date
- 2014
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