The Last Hussar

Following in the footsteps of his father and brothers, Maxi attends the Military Training School of the Royal Hungarian Forces. He expects to become an officer in the Hussars one day, but on the eve of his 17th birthday, he is unexpectedly given a week's leave. It's the first time he has spent his birthday at home for seven years. He doesn't know it will be the last...

...because it is October 1944.

Hungary is in the grip of the Nazi regime and Adolf Hitler has commanded that every male in the Third Reich over the age of 16 must fight. With the US and British armies advancing from the West and the Red Army closing in from the East, Maxi and his schoolfriends will be forced to flee across Poland and Germany. They will not only have to face freezing weather and starvation but also the long arm of the SS.

Based on my father's memoirs, this is the story of their incredible escape to freedom.