Hungary's Admiral on Horseback: Miklos Horthy, 1918-1944
Dreisziger, N F, Canadian Slavonic Papers
Thomas Sakmyster. Hungary's Admiral on Horseback: Miklos Horthy, 1918-1944. Boulder, CO: Eastern European Monographs; distributed by Columbia University Press, 1994. x, 476. Illustrations. $50.00, cloth.
Admiral Miklos Horthy, Hungary's head-of-state from 1920 to 1944, is one the most controversial statesmen in modern Hungarian history. His name has been linked to the White Terror of 1919; he is also reputed to have been the chief architect of the "semi-feudal order" that prevailed in Hungary after 1920. However, in the eyes of many, his greatest "crime" was Hungary's involvement in World War II on the side of the Axis.
Half-a-century later, his name still stirs up …
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Publication information:
Article title: Hungary's Admiral on Horseback: Miklos Horthy, 1918-1944.
Contributors: Dreisziger, N F - Author.
Journal title: Canadian Slavonic Papers.
Volume: 39.
Issue: 1/2
Publication date: March-June 1997.
Page number: 259+.
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