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Parallel Lines
A Journey from Childhood to Belsen
Taschenbuch von Peter Lantos
Sprache: Englisch

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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. 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 and terror. Yet, this remains a testimony of survival, overcoming obstacles, which to adults may seem insurmountable, but to a child were just part of an adventure and, ultimately, recovery. After having established a career in the West, the author decided to revisit the stages on his earlier journeys, reliving the past through the perspective of the present. (From Amazon.co.uk [...] accessed 28/08/2007
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. 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 and terror. Yet, this remains a testimony of survival, overcoming obstacles, which to adults may seem insurmountable, but to a child were just part of an adventure and, ultimately, recovery. After having established a career in the West, the author decided to revisit the stages on his earlier journeys, reliving the past through the perspective of the present. (From Amazon.co.uk [...] accessed 28/08/2007
Über den Autor

By the age of 30, PETER LANTOS had survived Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, was beaten by the Communist police in Hungary, qualified in medicine, defected to England, sentenced to imprisonment for this "crime" in his absence and had established a career in academic medicine in London. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and in his previous life he was an internationally known clinical neuroscientist who has retired from a Chair at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. After retirement, it was his childhood experiences that gave him the impetus to write Parallel Lines. He is also the author of a novel, Closed Horizon, and a trilogy of plays, collectively entitled Stolen Lives. He lives in London.
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Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781905147571
ISBN-10: 1905147570
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Lantos, Peter
Hersteller: Quercus Publishing
Maße: 198 x 126 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Peter Lantos
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.01.2007
Gewicht: 0,208 kg
Artikel-ID: 102051634
Über den Autor

By the age of 30, PETER LANTOS had survived Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, was beaten by the Communist police in Hungary, qualified in medicine, defected to England, sentenced to imprisonment for this "crime" in his absence and had established a career in academic medicine in London. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and in his previous life he was an internationally known clinical neuroscientist who has retired from a Chair at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. After retirement, it was his childhood experiences that gave him the impetus to write Parallel Lines. He is also the author of a novel, Closed Horizon, and a trilogy of plays, collectively entitled Stolen Lives. He lives in London.
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Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781905147571
ISBN-10: 1905147570
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Lantos, Peter
Hersteller: Quercus Publishing
Maße: 198 x 126 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Peter Lantos
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.01.2007
Gewicht: 0,208 kg
Artikel-ID: 102051634
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