1977. Tern Press. Edition limited to 90 copies, Edition limited to 90 numbered copies, signed by T Orszag-Land, the translator from the original Hungarian, & Nicholas Parry, the illustrator. Quarter leather bound pictorial paper covered boards. Illustrated prospectus advertising this & other books by this press laid in. Much of the content is poetry relating the author's experiences as a Hungarian Jew in a Nazi concentration camp prior to his death in 1944.

In the early 1940s Radnóti was conscripted by the Hungarian Army, but being a Jew he was assigned to an unarmed (munkaszolgálat) ("labour battalion"). The battalion assigned to the Ukrainian front, and then in May 1944 the Hungarian Army retreated and his battalion was transferred to the copper mines in Bor, Serbia. In August 1944 as Yugoslav Partisans led by Josip Tito advanced, Radnóti's group of 3,200 Hungarian Jews was force-marched to central Hungary. On the march most of them died, including Radnóti.[3]

In these last months of his life Radnóti continued to write poems in a small notebook and scraps of paper he kept with him. His last poem was dedicated to his friend Miklós Lorsi, who was shot to death during their death march.[1] According to witnesses, in early November 1944, Radnóti was severely beaten by a drunken militiaman who had been tormenting him for "scribbling". Too weak to continue, he was murdered, together with other young Jews, and buried in a mass grave near the village of Abda, near Győr in northwestern Hungary.[4] Today, a statue next to the road commemorates his place of death.