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In the Shadow of the Apocalypse
By Dinu Pillat and George T. Sipos
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A captivating story of interwar Romania, fascist extremism, and revolutionary youth!
An exploration of the psychology and mysticism behind the rise of a violently nationalistic and anti-Semitic extreme right movement in interwar Romania, In the Shadow of the Apocalypse is a fictionalized account of an actual historica
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