History of Hungary: A Captivating Guide to Hungarian History, Starting from the Roman Empire through the Magyar Tribes, Austro-Hungarian Empire and Hungarian Revolution to the Present

Well researched book which is informative concise and entertaining. This book gives a thorough glimpse into the history of Hungary.

The book is fine as an overview, don't expect to see details there though. On top, there are factual mistakes: for instance, describing Middle Ages instead of referring to Rus' they refer to Russia which didn't exist back then.

The blatant political bias of the author is inappropriate in a book of this type.

As a history buff it gave me a working knowledge of this country's history. No great depth but that was not the book's intention

As with other captivating History books, this book was effective in taking the reader through the various stages of the history of Hungary. Books like this give the reader an excellent understanding about the past and present history, in detail, presented in a very informative manner. Thank you Gary B

In 1967 did I first time visit Hungary together with a group of students of the Helsinki School of Economics on their last year excursion, being their teacher and the formal leader of the two-week excursion to South-East Europe. Then in the 1970s, I had a Hungarian immigrant student following my lectures in economics, speaking fluent Finnish. Then I got the idea of starting to learn the Hungarian language as a hobby when retired from my Office. Which also happened some 20 years later! As a matter of fact, four years before the retirement. The immediate reason was my participation on a two-week trip to Hungary together with my wife as participants of her employer, Radio Finland's regular exchange program with the Hungarian Radio. Since then the Hungarian language and culture have been my hobby. Some dozen trips and over a hundred books, more book pages read than in any other language, Finnish included. Now the last nail: since the beginning of 2020 daily a couple of hours of Hungarian TV channels on IPTV world television. What have I learned? A lot, of course. But not nearly as much as I could have expected. For me, the Hungarian language has been and stays the most difficult language of all the ten I have actively learned. Of course, after a quarter of a century, I can communicate: read fairly easily using the dictionary, discuss with a friend, understand almost all words in a TV Program, but more often than not, fail completely understand the contents of the program. But I have not lost hope... This concise History of Hungary (no author name!), very well-read and clearly composed, has greatly increased my factual knowledge about Hungary because practically all other books have been nonfiction or historical novels at most. This, despite its small size, is nothing else than detailed and solid factual knowledge and information, some places even too much of it for me to comprehend. When reading I have made so many notes that I already expected that there would be a stop to introducing additional as a couple of times before. But I understood: no need for that because the book is supplied by Project Gutenberg, which allows completely free use of the text. It is a superb feature of Gutenberg that the text can be downloaded in Kindle format to which I am accustomed having been 10 years reading, and now lately regularly also reviewing Amazon ebooks. I have also actively given feedback on the Kindle reading program. And I have the feeling that many of my improvement suggestions have been observed because the suggested improvements have been introduced a couple of weeks later. Years ago Amazon allowed even $10 remunerations usable at further purchases of books. I have got two of them. Then they noticed the end of this practice. Continued to accept feedback, but now have discontinued doing so, without announcing about it. They allow introducing feedback, but then, however, do not accept it, saying "try another time". What other conclusion can I make than that I personally have been put on a blacklist? And, however, I am convinced about the rationality of my suggestions made after such a long practical experience. Here three most important ones: 1. Drop the complicated system of Notes as it is now. Introduce a simple Notebook instead. 2. Provide with the Table of Contents awaiting the reader notes introduction in between the lines of the contents. 3. Provide the TOC with page numbers before the heading lines instead of at the end of them both in the TOC used in the text as a link list and in the Notepad for introducing reader notes. I Make my Notes into an external Notebook. Tried recently introduced to the note system provided by Amazon. The latter indeed very clumsy, took at least five times so long Time and so much typing. Halfway I dropped Amazon and continued my way. But this book without any reservations deserves all five stars as my grateful assessment.