Bryan Cartledge
Author of The will to survive: a history of Hungary
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Works by Bryan Cartledge
28 June: Sarajevo 1914 - Versailles 1919: The War and Peace That Made the Modern World (2014) — Contributor — 14 copies
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- 1931-06-10
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- Great Britain
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- diplomat
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The author, whose interest in Hungary stems from his service there as British Ambassador during the declining years of Kádár’s Communist regime, traces Hungary’s story from the arrival of the Magyars in Europe to the accession of Hungary to membership of NATO and the European Union. The eleven hundred years covered by this stirring account embrace medieval greatness, Turkish occupation, Habsburg domination, unsuccessful struggles for independence, massive deprivation of territory and population after the First World War, a disastrous alliance with Nazi Germany motivated by the hope of redress, and forty years of Soviet-imposed Communism interrupted by a gallant but brutally suppressed revolution in 1956.… (more)