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Germany s invasion of Hungary in 1944 marked the end of a culture that had dominated Central Europe from the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth In this poignant memoir Charles Farkas offers a testament to this vanished way of life its society morality personal integrity wealth traditions and chivalry as well as an eyewitness account of its destruction begun at the hands of the Nazis and then completed under the heel of Soviet Communism Farkas recollections of growing up in Budapest a city whose grandeur embraced indeed spanned the Danube River his vivid descriptions of everyday life in Hungary before during and after World War II and his ultimate flight to freedom in the United States remind us that behind the larger historical events of the past century are the stories of the individual men and women who endured and ultimately survived them Vanished by the Danube Peace War Revolution and Flight to the West Excelsior Editions
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