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A painter’s eye on the end of a world. In the summer of 1914, young Hungarian artist Béla Zombory-Moldován was on holiday when the Great War erupted. Instead of returning to his canvases, he joined the Austro-Hungarian army and found himself on the Eastern Front, watching the old world disintegrate in weeks.
Moving between the front lines and the collapsing empire’s cities, Zombory-Moldován records the confusion, the patriotic euphoria, and the swift disillusionment of soldiers and civilians alike — the vast movements of armies and the small human moments history usually forgets.
Published in English for the first time in 2014, exactly a century after the events, this memoir is one of the great lost voices of the First World War. Essential for anyone who wants to understand not just how the war was fought, but what it felt like to live through the burning of a world.
In the summer of 1914, young Hungarian artist Béla Zombory-Moldován was on holiday when the Great War erupted. Instead of returning to his canvases, he joined the Austro-Hungarian army and found himself on the Eastern Front, watching the old world disintegrate in weeks. The Burning of the World is his memoir of that terrible year — a firsthand account of 1914 written with a painter’s eye for color, atmosphere, and telling detail.
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nMoving between the front lines and the collapsing empire’s cities, Zombory-Moldován records the confusion, the patriotic euphoria, and the swift disillusionment of soldiers and civilians alike. His account is both epic and intimate: the vast movements of armies and the small human moments that history usually forgets.
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nPublished in English for the first time in 2014 — exactly a century after the events it describes — this memoir is one of the great lost voices of the First World War. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand not just how the war was fought, but what it felt like to live through the burning of a world.
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