London: Doubleday. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1997. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Minor shelf wear to unclipped DJ. ; Black cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, blue endpapers. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. ; 350 pages; An amazing account of wartime Europe. Magda Denes was just five in 1939 when her father fled their native Budapest for America because he was the editor of an Anti-Nazi newspaper. His family didn't hear from him again until after the war. Thrown upon the mercy of relatives they were poor, and then hunted as they were Jewish. When the Red Army arrived they weren't the long hoped for saviours and the family had to flee in secret, eventually reaching America via France and Spain. .

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Bookseller: Books in Bulgaria (BG)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 19346
Title: Castles Burning A Child's Life in War
Author: Denes, Magda
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
ISBN 10: 0385409052
ISBN 13: 9780385409056
Publisher: Doubleday
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1997
Bookseller catalogs: 20th Century Warfare;

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