Publishing during the 100th Anniversary of the First World War An NYRB Classics Original The budding young Hungarian artist B la Zombory-Moldov n was on holiday when the First World War broke out in July 1914.
Called up by the army, he soon found himself hundreds of miles away, advancing on Russian 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 wa.
New York Review Of Books The burning of the world: a memoir of 1914, paperback/bela zombory-moldovan
