Rejto, Jeno

Jeno Rejto (born Jeno Reich) was a prolific Hungarian journalist, novelist and playwright. He is best known for his books published under the pen name "P. Howard," many of them set in the 1930s French Foreign Legion. For that reason, Rejto is often remembered as the immortal legionnaire. He was born in Budapest, then Austria-Hungary, on March 29, 1905. During World War II, after being exposed as a Jew by a Nazi newspaper, he was drafted to the Hungarian Army's labor service and dispatched to the eastern front in November, of 1942. He died on January 1, 1943 in Evdakovo, Russia (then under occu...