One Woman in the War : Hungary, 1944-1945
Before the publication of this book, Alaine Polcz was widely recognized as a psychologist ministering to the needs of disturbed and incurably ill children and their families, as the author of numerous articles and several books on thanatology, and as the founder of the hospice movement in Hungary. T...
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| Format: | Livre numérique |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Budapest :
Central European University Press
2013.
Marseille : OpenEdition |
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| Accès en ligne: | Ressource accessible en libre accès Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM ; Accès complet au document dans sa version HTML. Pas d'accès aux autres formats (PDF, Epub). |
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Description d'après la consultation, 2017-01-20 Titre provenant de la page de titre du document électronique La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de : 162 p. OpenEdition Books (freemium) |
| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Edition sous un autre format: | • One woman in the war, Hungary, 1944-1945, by Alaine Polcz, Budapest, CEU Press, Central European University press, 2002, 1 vol. (154 p.), 963-924154-7 |
| Résumé: | Before the publication of this book, Alaine Polcz was widely recognized as a psychologist ministering to the needs of disturbed and incurably ill children and their families, as the author of numerous articles and several books on thanatology, and as the founder of the hospice movement in Hungary. The autobiographic account of the experiences of a woman, then 19-20, in the closing months of the Second World War. When it was first published, in 1991, the book was a revelation of past horrors in Hungary which, until then, had lingered on in the farthest reaches of the national memory as rumor and suspicion about the violent acts committed against women during a time of chaos, havoc, and savagery. The literary world quickly recognized the merits of this book: It was highly praised by Hungarian reviewers, awarded prizes, and has already been translated into French, Rumanian, Slovenian, and Serbian. "A woman's life at the front. Hunger, lice, digging trenches, peeling potatoes, cold, filth. This life was not only mine. My husband's white-haired mother was dragged away and raped as pubescent girls were. Russian soldiers attacked me, beat me, protected me, stepped on my hand with a boot, fed me |
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| Description: | Description d'après la consultation, 2017-01-20 Titre provenant de la page de titre du document électronique La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de : 162 p. OpenEdition Books (freemium) |
| Format: | Navigateur Web |
| ISBN: | 9789633860052 |
| Accès: | L'accès complet au document est ouvert à tous dans sa version HTML. L'accès aux autres formats (PDF, Epub) est réservé aux usagers des établissements qui en ont fait l'acquisition |