9781857252132

The Will to Survive

Format: Paperback

ISBN13: 9781857252132

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Overview

The Will to Survive describes how a small country, for much of its existence squeezed between two empires, surrounded by hostile neighbours and subjected to invasion and occupation, survived the frequent tragedies of its eventful history to become a sovereign democratic republic within the European Union. The Mongol, Ottoman, Habsburg, Nazi and Soviet empires have all since vanished; but Hungary, a victim of all five and despite suffering the consequences of being on the losing side in every war she has fought, still occupies the territory the Magyar tribes claimed for themselves in the ninth century. 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.

ISBN-13

9781857252132

ISBN-10

1857252136

Weight

2.40 Pounds

Dimensions

6.25 x 2.00 x 9.00 In

List Price

$29.95

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

624 pages

Publisher

Timewell Pr

Published On

2006-01-01



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