The author of these memoirs, Countess Katinka Szapary, was born into an extremely well connected family of the Austro-Hungarian aristocracy. In them, she recalls the 1920's and 1930's when she was growing up in rural Hungary, her experiences of the Second World War, the Russian invasion of eastern Europe, and her post-war experiences when she was employed as a translator by the British occupying forces in Vienna, at which time her family were being subjected to the deportations and executions of the Stalinist regime. The memoirs, which were only discovered after the author's death, include...