The Burning of the World: A Memoir of 1914 (1 Viewer)

[jazzeum]

I came across this one tonight, from the New York Review of Books, by Béla Zombory-Moldován, a young Hungarian artist in 1914, who recounts his experiences in the Austro-Hungarian Army against the Russians. http://www.nybooks.com/books/imprints/classics/the-burning-of-the-world/

Here is an excerpt, http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2014/jul/28/1914-into-the-fire/?insrc=hpbl

 

[jazzeum]

I'm about halfway through this (short book) and gives us a look at Hungarian life and the Eastern front. The book was translated by his grandson. It was intended to be an autobiography but the author, an artist and an officer in the Hungarian Army, only got as far as 1915.

It seems that we get an over concentration on the Western front so this is a welcome book.