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Budapest Exit: A Memoir of Fascism, Communism, and Freedom (Eugenia & Hugh M. Stewart '26 Series on Eastern Europe)

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Budapest Exit. A Memoir of Fascism, Communism,and Freedom.

This book answers the question,"How would Huck Finn have survived through war, bombings, occupation, revolutions and an escape to freedom". Csaba Teglas is the Finn like story teller in thes autobiographical history/survival story. Teglas, born in 1930, counterpoints his growing up in Hungary with the life of his two sons in a suburb of New York City. His descriptions of family, friends, places, experiences and events are examined in the historical perspective of bombs, bullets and hunger. At 26 Teglas escaped to freedom. A freedom without money, language or a marketable job skill. Read the book and find out how he used the traits honed under fascism and communism to build a life in Canada and the United States.

Mr. Teglas Has written a timeless story of a youth triumphing over adversity. This is and uplifting book which gives a powerful lesson of what can be accomplished if one has grit and determination.

I give this book 5 Stars

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this first-hand account of a young boy growing up first under the Nazis and then the Communists. Mr. Teglas tells his story with incite and humor and I marvel at the spirit of his countrymen during these harrowing times. We, lucky to be born and brought up in the United States, simply have no idea what it would be like to live under oppression. "Budapest Exit" paints a vivid picture of a life our children hopefully will never know.