Vanished by the Danube - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Vanished by the Danube write by Charles Farkas. This book was released on 2013-06-20. Vanished by the Danube available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
A Time of Gifts
A Time of Gifts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Time of Gifts write by Patrick Leigh Fermor. This book was released on 2011-09-14. A Time of Gifts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This beloved account about an intrepid young Englishman on the first leg of his walk from London to Constantinople is simply one of the best works of travel literature ever written. At the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off from the heart of London on an epic journey—to walk to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is the rich account of his adventures as far as Hungary, after which Between the Woods and the Water continues the story to the Iron Gates that divide the Carpathian and Balkan mountains. Acclaimed for its sweep and intelligence, Leigh Fermor’s book explores a remarkable moment in time. Hitler has just come to power but war is still ahead, as he walks through a Europe soon to be forever changed—through the Lowlands to Mitteleuropa, to Teutonic and Slav heartlands, through the baroque remains of the Holy Roman Empire; up the Rhine, and down to the Danube. At once a memoir of coming-of-age, an account of a journey, and a dazzling exposition of the English language, A Time of Gifts is also a portrait of a continent already showing ominous signs of the holocaust to come.
Danube
Danube - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Danube write by Claudio Magris. This book was released on 2011-01-11. Danube available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Neither a travel book, nor a vast prose poem, nor a history, nor philosophy, nor voyage of discovery, but often all at once' Independent on Sunday WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RICHARD FLANAGAN In this fascinating journey Claudio Magris, whose knowledge is encyclopaedic and whose curiosity limitless, guides his reader from the source of the Danube in the Bavarian hills through Austro-Hungary and the Balkans to the Black Sea. Along the way he raises the ghosts that inhabit the houses and monuments - from Ovid to Kafka and Canetti - and in so doing sets his finger on the pulse of Central Europe, the vital crucible of a culture that draws on influences of East and West, of Christendom and Islam.
Between the Woods and the Water
Between the Woods and the Water - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Between the Woods and the Water write by Patrick Leigh Fermor. This book was released on 2010-10-10. Between the Woods and the Water available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The acclaimed travel writer's youthful journey - as an 18-year-old - across 1930s Europe by foot began in A Time of Gifts, which covered the author's exacting journey from the Lowlands as far as Hungary. Picking up from the very spot on a bridge across the Danube where his readers last saw him, we travel on with him across the great Hungarian Plain on horseback, and over the Romanian border to Transylvania. The trip was an exploration of a continent which was already showing signs of the holocaust which was to come. Although frequently praised for his lyrical writing, Fermor's account also provides a coherent understanding of the dramatic events then unfolding in Middle Europe. But the delight remains in travelling with him in his picaresque journey past remote castles, mountain villages, monasteries and towering ranges.
The Danube from the Black Forest to the Black Sea
The Danube from the Black Forest to the Black Sea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Danube from the Black Forest to the Black Sea write by Francis Davis Millet. This book was released on 2021-11-05. The Danube from the Black Forest to the Black Sea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A travel guide written by the American author Francis Davis Millet. This book offers readers a detailed description of the Danube River and its valley, providing insights into the history and canoeing adventures that await in Europe. A must-read for travel enthusiasts and history buffs.
