Will to Freedom
Subtitle: A Perilous Journey Through Fascism and Communism
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: February 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 469
ISBN-13: 9780815606031
Subjects: Biography: historical; European history: from c 1900 -; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; 20th century; History: World; Communism; Jewish Holocaust Personal Narratives; Romania; History; Biography / Autobiography; Hungary; Holocaust; Historical - Holocaust; Personal narratives; Balas, Egon; Biography; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews
Description: "A memoir of life under Nazi and communist rule in Hungary and Romania, this book provides an eyewitness account of the social and political upheaval that shook Eastern Europe from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s. As an underground resistance fighter, political prisoner, fugitive, and Communist Party official, Egon Balas charts his journey from idealistic young Communist to disenchanted dissident."--BOOK JACKET.