This 2001 book offers a comprehensive thous&-year history of the land people society culture & economy of Hungary from its nebulous origins in the Ural Mountains to the elections of 1988. It tells above all the thrilling story of a people which became a great power in the region & then fought against
- & was invaded by
- Ottomans Germans & Soviets. The Hungarian people preserved nevertheless a continuous individuality through its Ural-born language & a specifically Hungaro-European culture. Dominated from the sixteenth century by the Habsburgs while ruling its own national minorities Hungary was deprived of two-thirds of its lands & peoples through successive treaties which followed the two World Wars after which it fell under Soviet domination for nearly fifty years. Free & independent since 1990 Hungary continues to seek its rightful position in Europe.