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I am fifteen and I do not want to die : the true story of a young woman's wartime survival

I am fifteen and I do not want to die : the true story of a young woman's wartime survival

Arnothy, Christine, 1930- author.
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Told with a calm compulsive force, and with an intimacy and maturity that defies her years, Christine Arnothy's story is a poignant coming-of-age memoir, and a remarkable tale of ordinary lives destroyed by war. Christine tells of ther terrible experiences in Budapest in early 1945, as the siege which was to kill some 40,000 civilians raged around her and her family. By the end of the siege over eighty per cent of the buildings in the city were...

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Arnothy, Christine, 1930-
Budapest (Hungary) History Siege, 1945 Personal narratives
World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives, Hungarian
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ISBN:
9780008339715
9780007328673
Description:
xi, 273 pages ; 20 cm
Other Title:
I am 15 & I don't want to die
Notes:
Publisher, pagination and printing dates may vary
Translation of: J'ai quinze ans et je ne veux pas mourir
Originally published in French: Paris : Fayard, 1955
First published under the present English title: 1956
Also published in English as It is not so easy to live: 1958
Translated from the French
Control Number:
2773929
Other Authors:
Arnothy, Christine, 1930- It is not so easy to live
Arnothy, Christine, 1930- J'ai quinze ans et je ne veux pas mourir. English
Castledine, Catherine, translator
White, Antonia, 1899-1980, translator
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