Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #596380 in Books
• Published on: 2000-06-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 360 pages

Synopsis
Nicolas Horthy was head of state of Hungary for 25 years. Conservative yet highly popular among his countrymen in his time, history has treated him unfairly. No other country in the first half of the 20th century had a leader who is equally vilified by Communists as well as Fascists as Horthy. For this edition over 600 footnotes, from sources ranging from Eichmann to Wallenberg, were added to his original 1953 autobiography.

Customer Reviews

Interesting book
I have nothing else to add to Dr. R. Brandon's opinion (below). I liked the book and it deserves a higher rating. Spelling errors are not a reason to give such a low rating.

A Interesting Book on the Generally Overlooked Horthy Regency
This book takes the memoirs of Horthy, Regent of Hungary between the World Wars, originally published in English in 1957 and adds many annotations to refute or add to the veracity of Horthy's writing as history requires. The career of Horthy covers his time in the Austro-Hungarian Navy, as aide-de-camp to Emperor Franz Josef and then to his period of 25 years as Regent of Hungary. The Regency followed the short lived Communist regime of Bela Kun established after the First World War. A most interesting book that gives many insights into events of the 1930s and 1940s that would be difficult to obtain elsewhere. The subject of the closing days of the Third Reich and its effect on Hungary are particularly interesting and covered in some detail. Unfortunately the book, which appears to be a private publication, contains numerous grammatical and spelling errors but is a good read nevertheless.