Against the backdrop of the Nazi invasion, the Soviet occupation, and the Hungarian Revolution, this memoir poignantly recounts a young girl's experience of the events that shattered an idyllic childhood and an elegant era of Hungarian history. SUMMARY: Nine-year-old Kinga is cossetted in the cocoon of an idyllic childhood along the banks of the Danube. Then come the Germans. Suddenly the streets and squares of the historic city of Esztergom are bulging with blonde, square-faced soldiers; shrieking sirens, announcing Allied air raids, paralyze the city with fear. In October of 1944, as the...