Background
Eby, Cecil DeGrotte was born on August 1, 1927 in Charles Town, West Virginia, United States. Son of Cecil and Ellen (Turner) Eby.
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In Hungary at War, Cecil Eby has compiled a historical chronicle of Hungary’s wartime experiences based on interviews with nearly one hundred people who lived through those years. Here are officers and common soldiers, Jewish survivors of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps, pilots of the Royal Hungarian Air Force, Hungarian prisoners of war in Russian labor camps, and a host of others. We meet the apologists for the Horthy regime installed by Hitler and the activists who sought to overthrow it, and we relive the Red Army’s siege of Budapest during the harsh winter of 1944–45 through the memories of ordinary citizens trapped there. Most of the accounts shared here have never been told to anyone outside the subjects’ families. We learn of a woman, Ilona Joó, who survived in a cellar while German and Russian armies used her house and garden as a battleground, and of the remarkable Merényi sisters, who trekked home to Budapest after being freed from Bergen-Belsen. Eby has also included a rare interview with a former member of the Arrow Cross, Hungary’s fascist party, that sheds new light on its leadership. From these personal accounts, Eby draws readers into the larger themes of the tragedy of war and the consequences of individual actions in moments of crisis. Skillfully integrating oral testimony with historical exposition, Hungary at War reveals the knot of ideological, economic, and ethnic attachments that entangled the lives of so many Hungarians. The result is an absorbing narrative that is a fitting testament to a nation buffeted by external forces beyond its capacity to control.
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(Hungary's place in World War II has been woefully documen...)
Hungary's place in World War II has been woefully documented, because until recently any histories of the war years had to conform to the Communist Party line. Originally allied with Germany to defend itself against Bolshevism, Hungary saw its army decimated in 1943 and was subsequently invaded - and occupied - by the Soviets. Now fifty years after the closing of the Iron Curtain, the memories of ...
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( The Lost Generation has held the imagination of those w...)
The Lost Generation has held the imagination of those who succeeded them, partly because the idea that modern war could be romantic, generous, and noble died with the casualties of that war. From this remove, it seems almost perverse that Britons, Germans, and Frenchmen of every social class eagerly rushed to the fields of Flanders and to misery and death. In The Road to Armageddon Cecil Eby shows how the widely admired writers of English popular fiction and poetry contributed, at least in England, to a romantic militarism coupled with xenophobia that helped create the climate that made World War I seem almost inevitable. Between the close of the Franco-Prussian War of 1871 and the opening guns of 1914, the works of such widely read and admired writers as H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, J. M. Barrie, and Rupert Brooke, as well as a host of now almost forgotten contemporaries, bombarded their avid readers with strident warnings of imminent invasions and prophecies of the collapse of civilization under barbarian onslaught and internal moral collapse. Eby seems these narratives as growing from and in turn fueling a collective neurosis in which dread of coming war coexisted with an almost loving infatuation with it. The author presents a vivid panorama of a militant mileau in which warfare on a scale hitherto unimaginable was largely coaxed into being by works of literary imagination. The role of covert propaganda, concealed in seemingly harmless literary texts, is memorably illustrated.
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writer English language educator
Eby, Cecil DeGrotte was born on August 1, 1927 in Charles Town, West Virginia, United States. Son of Cecil and Ellen (Turner) Eby.
AB, Shepherd College, 1950; Master of Arts, Northwestern University, 1951; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, 1958.
Instructor, then assistant professor English High Point College, 1955-1957. Assistant professor, then associate professor Madison College, 1957-1960. Member faculty Washington and Lee University, 1960-1965.
Professor University Michigan, since 1965. Professor English, chairman department University Mississippi, University, 1975-1976. Fulbright professor American literature University Salamanca, Spain, 1962-1963.
Fulbright professor American studies University Valencia, 1967-1968. Fulbright professor American literature University Budapest, 1981. Professor University Szeged, 1988-1989.
( The Lost Generation has held the imagination of those w...)
( In Hungary at War, Cecil Eby has compiled a historical ...)
(In Hungary at War, Cecil Eby has compiled a historical ch...)
(Hungary's place in World War II has been woefully documen...)
(New York. 1969 Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 22x15. 342p.)
Served with United States Naval Reserve, 1945-1946.
Married Eleonora Arato. Children from previous marriage: Clare Virginia, Lillian Turner.