Review: Boy Soldier

Title: Boy Soldier
Authour: Ervin v. Galantay
Publisher: Militaria (Hungary)
ISBN: 963 217 645 6
Stars: 5 (out of 5)

I picked this book up from Aberdeen Books. Decently priced and a title I have heard about for sometime.
This memoir covers the seige of Budapest and how one soldier managed to survive the Soviet assault.
Chapters cover the authour as a Boy Cadet officer and how the city was dealing with the war and the eventual Soviet offensives that were bringing them closer to Budapest. How he ended up joining one of the battalions and what he was doing in the battalion....runner.
I found the book very interesting as the authour talks about how the soldiers were supplied by German gliders at one point, how Hungarian patrols were sent to the Soviet rear through the sewer systems. How men and women of all ages were incorporated into the Hungarian Battalions and also the working relationships with the German military units that were surrounded in the seige too. The last chapter covers the breakout attempts of the units and what befell most of them and those that survived.
There is a small postscript of what happend to the authours family during the occupation and brief uprising in '56.
There are pictures at the end of the book of some of the soldiers that are mentioned and of Hungary during the war.
The last Chapter covers the Hungarian 40/43 "Zrinyi" Assault Gun
A very interesting memoir of a topic not mentioned that much.