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Fort Lauderdale, March 2005:  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 North America.

About the Author

Sándor Alexander Erdélyi was born in 1934 in Budapest, Hungary.  He studied at a prestigious separate school, but the Communist government denied him a university education.  His early freelance writing career was aborted by government censors.  He escaped Hungary in 1956 with his wife and child and settled in Canada.  After almost thirty years of salaried work and business ownership, Erdélyi resumed writing, producing op-eds, interviews, and analytical reports for the government.  In retirement, he wrote short stories before embarking on his first full-length book.  He is currently working on several writing projects.

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