Vanished by the Danube : peace, war, revolution, and flight to the West / Charles Farkas ; introduction by Margaret McMullan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Farkas, Charles, 1925-

Series:

Excelsior Editions

Excelsior editions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hungarian Americans--Biography.

Hungarian Americans.

Hungary--Emigration and immigration.

Hungary.

Hungary--History--1918-1945.

Hungary--History--1945-1989.

Hungary--History--Revolution, 1956.

Hungary--Social life and customs.

Farkas, Charles, 1925---Childhood and youth.

Farkas, Charles.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (496 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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's 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.

Contents:

""Chapter 10: Uncle Rory and My Father Make a Deal""""Chapter 11: New Dwellers in the Old Manor House""; ""Chapter 12: My School Life""; ""Chapter 13: Gyuri Sághy Appears on the Scene""; ""Chapter 14: Romantic Encounters""; ""Chapter 15: Magnolias in the Moonlight and September in the Rain""; ""Chapter 16: My First Visit to the Gunda Farm""; ""Chapter 17: Champion du Mond""; ""Chapter 18: Illusion, Emotions, and the Coming of the Whirlwind""; ""Chapter 19: The Last Summer before the Siege""; ""Chapter 20: Hitler Occupies Hungary�Manhunt""; ""Chapter 21: In Transylvania""

""Chapter 22: Homeward Bound""""Chapter 23: Autumn in the Vineyard""; ""Chapter 24: October 15, 1944 The Arrow Cross Grabs Power""; ""Chapter 25: Reminiscences""; ""Chapter 26: The Siege of Budapest and the End of Nazism""; ""Chapter 27: Vanished by the Danube""; ""Chapter 28: Home Again in the Old Manor House""; ""Chapter 29: In the Meantime, Back at the Ranch . . .and Our Daily Russian Visitors""; ""Chapter 30: Exploring Our Newfound Domain""; ""Chapter 31: Working the Land""; ""Chapter 32: Farewell to Logodi Street""

""Chapter 33: Settling Down at the Old Homestead and a New Year's Party""""Chapter 34: An Adventure in the Life of Szabolcs""; ""Chapter 35: Moonshining in the Moonlight""; ""Chapter 36: A Garden in the Rain""; ""Chapter 37: A Phony Peace (1946-1947)""; ""Chapter 38: Blue Skies Smiling at Us""; ""Chapter 39: The Fall of the House of Roediger""; ""Chapter 40: Liquidation of the Kulaks""; ""Chapter 41: Searches at the Ranch and Another Dreadful Year""; ""Chapter 42: The Red Army Wants Me""; ""Chapter 43: My Move to Buda""; ""Chapter 44: Haven for the Shipwrecked at the Old Manor House""

""Chapter 45: Workers Unite!""""Chapter 46: A Budding Romance""; ""Chapter 47: My Life as a Rickshaw Man""; ""Chapter 48: Clouds on the Horizon""; ""Chapter 49: Revolutionaries Pull Down the Stalin Statue. Siege of the Studio.""; ""Chapter 50: Escape to the West""; ""Chapter 51: Journey to the New World on the U.S.N.S. Marine Carp""; ""Epilogue""; ""Acknowledgments""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4384-4759-0

1-4619-4364-7

OCLC:

859268954