Kategoria BISAC: History >> Europe - Austria & Hungary

Als im Herbst 1918 die zweite Welle der Spanischen Grippe ausbrach, befand sich das Habsburgerreich bereits in einem politischen Todeskampf. Sein Militär stand vor dem Zusammenbruch, die Wirtschaft lag am Boden, die Versorgungslage war prekär und Millionen von Kriegsheimkehrern, Flüchtlingen und Kriegsgefangenen waren in Bewegung. Vor diesem Hintergrund hatte die Regierung des jungen Kaisers Karl I. im August 1918 eine politische Pioniertat vollbracht: Unter der Leitung des Prager Professors Iwan Horbatschewskyj richtete sie das erste europäische Ministerium für Volksgesundheit ein....

The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was perhaps the most dramatic single event of the Cold War and a major turning point in history. Though it ended unsuccessfully, the spontaneous uprising of Hungarians against their country's Communist party and the Soviet occupation forces in the wake of Stalin's death demonstrated to the world at large the failure of Communism. In full view of the Western media--and therefore the world--the Russians were obliged to use force on a vast scale to subdue armed students, factory workers, and intellectuals in the streets of a major European capital.

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In Hungary at War, Cecil Eby has compiled a historical chronicle of Hungary's wartime experiences based on interviews with nearly one hundred people who lived through those years. Here are officers and common soldiers, Jewish survivors of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps, pilots of the Royal Hungarian Air Force, Hungarian prisoners of war in Russian labor camps, and a host of others. We meet the apologists for the Horthy regime installed by Hitler and the activists who sought to overthrow it, and we relive the Red Army's siege of Budapest during the harsh winter of...

In Hungary at War, Cecil Eby has compiled a historical chronicle of Hungary's wartime experiences based on interviews with nearly one hundred people who lived through those years. Here are officers and common soldiers, Jewish survivors of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps, pilots of the Royal Hungarian Air Force, Hungarian prisoners of war in Russian labor camps, and a host of others. We meet the apologists for the Horthy regime installed by Hitler and the activists who sought to overthrow it, and we relive the Red Army's siege of Budapest during the harsh winter of...