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December 30 Editorial reviews of my booksTo order: www.amazon.com or BookSurge Publishing 1-866 308 6235 Ext: 5120 and/or orders@booksurge.com
PEACE, WAR and the AFTERMATH is an account of war and communist takeover, and a
coming-of-age tale with a twist. As a young boy, Sándor Erdélyi saw the horrors of war firsthand:
“A work crew had already dug out a long ditch in the nearby church garden, a mass grave,
in effect. We were given no tools with which to extract the bodies from the slush and ice that
covered them. Shaking with horror, crying with despair, I dug alongside my mother.”
After WWII, Hungary was stripped of vast chunks of her territory and her remnants were swallowed
by Soviet Russia. Classmates and workplace colleagues disappeared and families were torn apart.
Erdélyi's generation was decimated by deportation, internal exile and murder as the communist regime
tightened its chokehold on the country. By turns harrowing, comical and moving, Erdélyi's story is a
testament to the strength of the human spirit and a valuable chronicle of a country that is still poorly
understood in the world. The book sets the stage for the Hungarian Revolution of October 1956.
ISBN: 15952606245
YUKON, Land of the Midnight Sun, is the second book in a trilogy by the author. The story leads
the reader through an era from the time when the Military Highway was constructed between Dawson
Creek, British Columbia and Delta Junction of Alaska, USA, to 1966. The highway was best described
by one of its early travelers, Troy Hise, in his poem:
"Winding in and winding out
Leaves my mind in serious doubt
As to whether the man who built this route
Was going to hell or coming out."
After WWII, opening up the Military Highway (Alaska Highway) to civilian traffic ended travel by
romantic paddle-wheeler on the Yukon River between Whitehorse and Dawson City. The boats that
plied the treacherous waters of the Yukon River were dry-docked in Whitehorse and the important
role they played in the life of the territory was nearly forgotten. With the highway open, the Yukon
began to develop by leaps and bounds. ISBN: 141964419X
WALK 20 MILES IN MY MOCCASINS is part history lesson, part memoir. This collection of
essays is Alexander Erdelyi's third book. His passion for history was formed by his experiences in
wartime and Communist-ruled Hungary, and by emigration to and settlement in Canada. This perspective
allows him to compare life under a variety of political systems and provides context for the little-known
historical information he presents in some of the pieces.
Many of these essays comprise Erdelyi's take on the ills of modern society. Fuelled by conviction and
a desire to educate, he lambasts politicians, scientists, historians, political correctness, bureaucratic
bungling and contemporary childrearing. Erdelyi's fierce love of his adoptive country does not prevent
him from excoriating its public policies. Indeed, it is his love of the ideal of democracy that serves as the
foundation for his vehemently expressed beliefs. ISBN–13: 9 781419 675744
Sandor Alexander Erdelyi, author of Peace, War and the Aftermath, Yukon, Land of the
Midnight Sun and WALK 20 MILES IN MY MOCCASINS was born in 1934 in Budapest,
Hungary. He studied at a prestigious protestant separate school but the communist government
denied him a university education. His early freelance writing career was aborted by Hungarian
government censors. He escaped Hungary in 1956 after the Hungarian revolution and settled
in Canada. After almost 30 years of salaried work and business ownership, he resumed writing,
producing op-eds, interview and analytical reports for the Canaadian Government.
Can
Angolul írott könyveimről magyarulMegrendelhetők: www.amazon.com v. BookSurge Publishing 1-866 308 6235 mellék 5120 v. PEACE, WAR and the AFTERMATH (Béke, háború és a következményeik) beszámoló a háborúról és a kommunista hatalomátvételről, valamint egy felnövekvő ember hányattatásainak elbeszélése. Erdélyi Sándor, mint kisfiú a borzalmakat testközelben élte át:
“Egy csoport munkás már kiásott egy hosszú árkot a szomszédos templom kertjében, ami végül is tömegsírként szolgált. Nem kaptunk semmilyen segédeszközt arra, hogy a sárba, jégbe fagyott holttesteket megmozdítsuk. A borzalomtól kétségbeesve, sírva ástam anyám mellett..”
A II. VH-t Magyarország csonkig kifosztva élte meg, ami maradt az a szovjetek martaléka lett. Osztálytársak és munkahelyi kollégák tűntek el, családok szakadtak szét. Erdélyi generációját tizedelték a deportálások, az internálások és kivégzések, amint a kommunista rezsim egyre szorosabbra fűzte a hurkot az országon. Az Erdélyiek szívszaggató, humoros, majd költözési történetei az emberi lélek erejének megörökítése, egyúttal egy a világban még ma is alig ismert nép történetének értékes feljegyzése. A könyv az 1956. októberi Magyar Forradalomnak állít emléket. ISBN: 15952606245
YUKON, Land of the Midnight Sun (YUKON az éjféli nap földje) az író trilógiájának második része. A történet az olvasót abba az időbe viszi vissza, amikor az alaszkai hadiutat építették Dawson Creek, British Columbia (Kanada) és a Delta Junction (Alaska, USA) között, 1966-ig. Ezt a hadiutat a legjobban egy korábbi utazó Troy Hise írta le egyik versében: „Tekereg jobbra, tekereg balra Gondolatban kétségem van, Vajon aki ez utat építette Jött a pokolból vagy ment oda”
II. VH után a hadiút (Alaska Highway) civil használatba adása elsorvasztotta a romantikus lapátkerekes hajó forgalmat a Yukon folyón Whitehorse és Dawson City között. A Yukon folyó veszélyes vizét egykor ellepő hajók szárazra vontatva pihennek Whitehorseban, valamikori jelentőségük a térség életében feledésbe merült. Az országút megnyitásával Yukon hol nagyobb, hol kisebb sebességgel, de fejlődni kezdett. ISBN: 141964419X
WALK 20 MILES IN MY MOCCASINS (Húsz mérföld az én sarumban) részben történelem részben visszaemlékezés. Ez az elbeszélés-gyűjtemény Erdélyi Sándor harmadik könyve. A történelem iránti szeretete a háború, majd a kommunista uralom alatti Magyarországon, és Kanadába történt emigrációja és letelepedése során tapasztaltakból keletkezett. Ezek a nézőpontok lehetővé teszik számára az élethelyzetek összehasonlítását a különböző politikai rendszerekben, és hogy ezekhez kevésbé ismert történelmi kapcsolódásokat is felmutasson néhány írásában. Sok tanulmány foglalja magába Erdélyi látásmódját a modern társadalom betegségeiről. Meggyőződéses jobbítási szándékkal támadja a politikusokat, tudósokat, történészeket számon kérve a politikai korrektséget, a bürokratikus kontárkodásokat, az újmódi gyereknevelést. Erdélyi befogadó országa iránti szenvedélyes szeretete nem gátolja őt annak politikai életének kritizálásban. Indítékai a valóságban éppen a demokrácia iránti elkötelezettsége. ISBN–13: 9 781419 675744 December 28 Past Christmas - Before the New YearDecember 28, 2007. Christmas is over – New Year’s Eve to go. As to my New Year’s resolutions… well, I cannot reveal them – should I make any… After all, we all need some privacy in this ever-changing world… All I can promise you is that I’ll be as “obnoxious” as I have been in my books! That is the only one promise I can make and – it will be yet another promise that I will keep! WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction) - Mother of All Weapons - is the most feared of all the weapons mankind invented. Yet, it is not an effective counter measure to counter human ignorance! Perhaps in the year of 2008, an eighteen-year old professor will invent an effective weapon to combat human ignorance that plagued us for the past 40 years. Wishing you and yours a happy, healthy and a successful New Year!
December 24 Welcome to my website December 24
Welcome to my website: www.alexerdelyi.com. Although the site is "under construction" frequently, you can still get familiar
with the books I've written to date and the reviews these books received from readers (also see by titles at Barnes and Noble,
Amazon.com Forbes, etc.).
PEACE, WAR and the AFTERMATH is about 20th Century European history, through the life of the Erdelyi family.
Commencing with the turn of the Century, the story leads the reader through the "war to end all wars" (WW-I), the
Great Depression of the 1930s, WW-II and the subsequent colonization of Eastern Europe by the Soviet Union, to the end
of the failed 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
YUKON, Land of the Midnight Sun portrays life in the post-Second World War Yukon Territory. Little known historical
information are revealed, such as the WW-II airfields of the Northern (military) Staging Route, to ensure safe ferrying of
US-built fighter aircrafts to the Soviet Union, which were operational until 1968 - 23 years past the end of the War!
WALK 20 MILES IN MY MOCCASINS is a collection of my essays that analyze the political consequences of WW-I
and the following 1920 - so called - peace treaties. Stemming from the aftermath of the two World Wars, current-day
political stands are put under a magnifying glass for the reader to judge politicians, scientists, bureaucrats, special interest groups,
political correctness and bureaucratic bungles.
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