Located on the Don front, a Honved machine-gunner waits in the trenches for a Soviet attack, in the winter of 1942-1943, when night temperatures often fell to 30-40 degree below zero.

Hungarian Machine-gunner in the East, 1942-1943 

Located by the Don River, one of many Hungarian military resting places in  Russia. established during the summer and fall of 1942.

Magyar Cemetery by the Don Front, 1942 

Countless Magyar bootsteps in the frigid Russian snow,
Steppe-wind expunged many decades ago.

The guns have long fallen silent, nor do savage tanks roar,
The combat is wholly over, human blood no longer pours.

Yet in rare, dark, midnight glooms, columns of brooding Honved spirits still carry on eerie Don River foot patrols. 

Most of the dreadful war-scars have healed up by today,
On the former battle fields, clusters of red  poppies sway. 


