The burning of the world : a memoir of 1914 - Zombory-Moldován, Béla, 1885-1967.; Zombory-Moldovan, Peter (New York, NY : New York Review Books, 2014)
"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"--
Novi -- Budapest at war -- Veszprém -- The march -- Deployment -- Into the fire -- Back to life -- Home again -- The hospital -- Leave -- Sajóvárkony -- Lovrana.
Keywords: 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