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Parallel Lines: A Journey from Childhood to Belsen
Peter Lantos
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Description for Parallel Lines: A Journey from Childhood to Belsen
Paperback. Num Pages: 300 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGA; HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 200 x 21. Weight in Grams: 286.
This is a story of a young boy s journey from a sleepy provincial town in Hungary during the Second World War to the concentration camp in Bergen-Belsen. After a winter in Bergen-Belsen where his father died, he and his mother were liberated by the Americans outside a small German village, and handed over to the Red Army. They escaped from the Russians, and travelled, hiding on a goods train, through Prague to Budapest. Unlike other books dealing with this period, this is not a Holocaust story, but a child s recollection of a journey full of surprise, excitement, bereavement ... Read more
This is a story of a young boy s journey from a sleepy provincial town in Hungary during the Second World War to the concentration camp in Bergen-Belsen. After a winter in Bergen-Belsen where his father died, he and his mother were liberated by the Americans outside a small German village, and handed over to the Red Army. They escaped from the Russians, and travelled, hiding on a goods train, through Prague to Budapest. Unlike other books dealing with this period, this is not a Holocaust story, but a child s recollection of a journey full of surprise, excitement, bereavement ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Arcadia Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781905147571
SKU
V9781905147571
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Ref
99-99
About Peter Lantos
Peter Lantos was born in 1939 in Hungary. He is a clinical neuroscientist who has recently retired from a Chair at the Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London. He is internationally renowned in his field and edited the leading textbook in neuropathology. Born in Hungary, he has been living in London for nearly four decades. His first novel Closed ... Read more
Reviews for Parallel Lines: A Journey from Childhood to Belsen
'Lantos has not only written a moving and sensitively narrated memoir, but he has also done an expert job of sleuthing his family's history in order to fill the heartbreaking gaps left by the Holocaust.'
Richard Zimler, author of 'The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon'
Richard Zimler, author of 'The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon'