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Title: Hungary After a Thousand Years by Imre Josika-Herczeg, Andrew L. Simon, Albert Apponyi ISBN: 0-9665734-5-5 Publisher: Simon Publications Pub. Date: July, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95

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Summary: Hungary, After a Thousand Years
Comment: This recently re-discovered longtime out-of-print work of Imre Josika-Herczeg is a rare precious source of information for historiography. It provides an excellent and concise overview of Hungary's more than thousand-year history and gives a broad historical survey of the essential social, cultural and political conditions that affected this past. It also presents and contextualizes the factors that influenced the internal and foreign policies of Hungary up until the late twenties, just before the stock market collapse resulted in widespread economic destruction and turned politics to rightward direction almost all over in Europe. The chapters on the historical past are a delight to read. These reflect the author's deep knowledge of his subject (he held two doctorates; from Law and from Political Sciences) and his affection to his proclaimed goals: to recall immortal memories of the Fatherland to the millions of Hungarian descendants who speak no longer the language of their fore-fathers and to show a clear picture of Hungarian history to the English-speaking world. The chapters describing the destructive and sad consequences of the Trianon Treaty and the futile diplomatic efforts to revise it in the name of justice are passionate but eminently fair. The reader feels the "soul" of any Hungarian, who lived through that dark moment of history. The narratives are written with an observer's eye and with the authority of a person who is having direct insider's information: he had served years as an officer in the Hungarian cavalry during WW1 at the Russian front, served in the diplomatic corps of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and he was a close friend of postwar Hungary's several leading statesmen, in particular of Albert Apponyi.

If you want to know more about your heritage, or you have a desire to understand your ethnic background or you are just simply interested in the subject, you will enjoy the book. Political or social historians, even those working in Hungary, will find in the book interesting data. Many of them perhaps cannot be found at any other place. These relate to the Hungarian -American relations, to the participation of Hungarian freedom fighters of the 1848 revolution in the civil war and to the early reach contribution of Hungarian immigrants to the cultural development of America.