HEADQUARTERS BUDAPEST

by Robert Parker ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 15, 1944

Colorful, vivid mirroring of recent history that is thoroughly readable and gives an explicit picture of Eastern European tangles, as an AP editor and correspondent tells of his five years in Eastern and Southeastern Europe and the events and politics and figures that marked that period. From an eyewitness story of the Hungarian invasion of sub-Carpathian Ukraine in 1939, he turns back to the background of Hitler's bluffs, to chaos produced by false leaders, to boundary promises and what they entailed; then he views the kaleidoscope of Rumania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, to incidents-grave and sometimes gay -- in Budapest, Bucharest, Warsaw, Danzig, Prague, Bratislava; the fallibility of treaties and pacts; the tightening fears that led to the blitzkreig in Poland. Then he writes of Greece, of Russia and Germany, of Bessarabia, and of government work in Turkey after our entry into the war. He stresses the pressing need of forestalling World War III starting in that region, through education, industry and world wide interest in the problems of the countries involved.

Pub Date: June 15, 1944

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Farrar & Rinehart

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 1, 1944

Categories: NONFICTION