October Fifteenth: A History Of Modern Hungary 1929-1945
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 2nd ed.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage — chips and tears along spine folds and corners. Price clipped. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings noted. Binding: Firm. Two-volume set, Second Edition, Part I and Part II. Vol I - binding cracked with net showing, no loose pages.
Few periods in European history are as turbulent and consequential as Hungary's interwar and wartime years, and C. A. Macartney's monumental two-volume work stands as the definitive account of this era. October Fifteenth: A History of Modern Hungary 1929-1945 chronicles the dramatic arc of a nation caught between the pressures of fascism, Nazi Germany, and Soviet expansion — from the fragile politics of the early 1930s through to the catastrophic upheavals of the Second World War's final chapter. Macartney, one of Britain's foremost Central European historians, brings an unparalleled depth of archival research and firsthand knowledge to bear on his subject, presenting a granular yet sweeping narrative that illuminates the complex web of personalities, factions, and foreign pressures that shaped Hungary's fate. The work is as much a political biography of a nation as it is a scholarly history, and its authoritative detail and unflinching analysis leave the reader confronting the uncomfortable question of how a country's choices in its darkest hours define it for generations to come.
Author: C. A. Macartney
Format: Hardback
Published: 1961, Edinburgh University Press
Genre: European history
Edition: 2nd ed.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage — chips and tears along spine folds and corners. Price clipped. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings noted. Binding: Firm. Two-volume set, Second Edition, Part I and Part II. Vol I - binding cracked with net showing, no loose pages.
Few periods in European history are as turbulent and consequential as Hungary's interwar and wartime years, and C. A. Macartney's monumental two-volume work stands as the definitive account of this era. October Fifteenth: A History of Modern Hungary 1929-1945 chronicles the dramatic arc of a nation caught between the pressures of fascism, Nazi Germany, and Soviet expansion — from the fragile politics of the early 1930s through to the catastrophic upheavals of the Second World War's final chapter. Macartney, one of Britain's foremost Central European historians, brings an unparalleled depth of archival research and firsthand knowledge to bear on his subject, presenting a granular yet sweeping narrative that illuminates the complex web of personalities, factions, and foreign pressures that shaped Hungary's fate. The work is as much a political biography of a nation as it is a scholarly history, and its authoritative detail and unflinching analysis leave the reader confronting the uncomfortable question of how a country's choices in its darkest hours define it for generations to come.