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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
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781590178096
  • Genres
  • history, memoir, hungary, biography, war, autobiography
  • Release date
  • 2014