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Foreword to the English Edition | p. xi |
Introduction | p. 1 |
"Heathen Barbarians" overrun Europe: Evidence from St Gallen | p. 7 |
Land Acquisition or Conquest? The Question of Hungarian Identity | p. 12 |
From Magyar Mayhem to the Christian Kingdom of the Arpads | p. 27 |
The Struggle for Continuity and Freedom | p. 38 |
The Mongol Invasion of 1241 and its Consequences | p. 49 |
Hungary's Rise to Great Power Status under Foreign Kings | p. 62 |
The Heroic Age of the Hunyadis and the Turkish Danger | p. 75 |
The Long Road to the Catastrophe of Mohacs | p. 86 |
The Disaster of Ottoman Rule | p. 94 |
Transylvania--the Stronghold of Hungarian Sovereignty | p. 106 |
Gabor Bethlen--Vassal, Patriot and European | p. 114 |
Zrinyi or Zrinski? One Hero for Two Nations | p. 126 |
The Kuruc Leader Thokoly: Adventurer or Traitor? | p. 137 |
Ferenc Rakoczi's Fight for Freedom from the Habsburgs | p. 145 |
Myth and Historiography: an Idol through the Ages | p. 155 |
Hungary in the Habsburg Shadow | p. 160 |
The Fight Against the "Hatted King" | p. 177 |
Abbot Martinovics and the Jacobin Plot | p. 183 |
Count Istvan Szechenyi and the "Reform Era": the "Greatest Hungarian" | p. 191 |
Lajos Kossuth and Sandor Petofi: Symbols of 1848 | p. 206 |
Victories, Defeat and Collapse: the Lost War of Independence, 1849 | p. 222 |
Kossuth the Hero versus "Judas" Gorgey: "Good" and "Bad" in Sacrificial Mythology | p. 242 |
Who was Captain Gusev? Russian "Freedom Fighters" between Minsk and Budapest | p. 260 |
Elisabeth, Andrassy and Bismarck: Austria and Hungary on the Road to Reconciliation | p. 266 |
Victory in Defeat: the Compromise and the Consequences of Dualism | p. 281 |
Total Blindness: The Hungarian Sense of Mission and the Nationalities | p. 299 |
The "Golden Age" of the Millennium: Modernization with Drawbacks | p. 310 |
"Magyar Jew or Jewish Magyar?" A Unique Symbiosis | p. 329 |
"Will Hungary be German or Magyar?" The Germans' Peculiar Role | p. 348 |
From the Great War to the "Dictatorship of Despair": the Red Count and Lenin's Agent | p. 356 |
The Admiral on a White Horse: Trianon and the Death Knell of St Stephen's Realm | p. 373 |
Adventurers, Counterfeiters, Claimants to the Throne: Hungary as Troublemaker in the Danube Basin | p. 389 |
Marching in Step with Hitler: Triumph and Fall. From the Persecution of Jews to Mob Rule | p. 406 |
Victory in Defeat: 1945-1990 | p. 427 |
"Everyone is a Hungarian": Geniuses and Artists | p. 466 |
Summing-up | p. 504 |
Notes | p. 508 |
Chronology of Significant Events in Hungarian History | p. 533 |
Index | p. 557 |
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