Wrong Passport

This country is like a little island, where the people live so happily, as if nothing was wrong with the world...' When Ralph Brewster wrote those lines, in the summer of 1943, Hungary's involvement in WWII was still barely felt in Budapest. Less than a year later the Nazis took over. Born an American but given Italian nationality as a child (the 'Wrong Passport' of the title) Brewster refused to return 'home' to Italy to fight for Mussolini. Instead, he went into hiding in Budapest and his story of life in a country at war, resorting to ever more desperate measures to dodge detection, makes fascinating reading. As Fascists tighten their grip and the Soviets begin their advance, the once-carefree city of coffee houses, concert halls and thermal baths is torn apart and Brewster's world disintegrates, together with that of his extraordinary cast of characters: the Archimandrite, the art-dealer spy, the cinema impresario, the Jewish philosophy student who refuses to wear the yellow star and the real-life 'English Patient'.


Author: Ralph Brewster
Publisher: Somerset Books
Published: 09/13/2022
Pages: 408
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 6.77h x 4.49w x 1.18d
ISBN13: 9781905131921
ISBN10: 1905131925
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Biography & Autobiography | Military