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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
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