Recent Publications
Nation and Europe
János Martonyi (Hungarian Foreign Minister 1998– 2002, 2010–2014) chose not to write a memoir but instead in the past decade has penned a series of volumes based on his distinguished and pivotal role in Hungarian political life.
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My American Roadtrip
Ludányi’s recollections offer a rare and valuable contribution to our understanding of American domestic and foreign policy and American-Hungarian relations.
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Anti-Semitism in Hungary
The Anti-Semitism in Hungary: Appearance and Reality Conference was the culmination of a nearly year-long research project on the topic of anti-Semitism in Hungary today.
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Jaap Scholten: Three Bags of Women’s Clothing and a Sniper
Three Bags of Ladies Clothes and a Sniper is a personal logbook and a unique report of the astonishing courage, resilience and solidarity that the war has unleashed in the Ukrainians.
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Hungary’s Admiral on Horseback
Admiral Horthy’s political career spanned a good part of the first half of the twentieth century, yet he was by no means a modern statesman.
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A Contested Europe
Every policy has costs, not just benefits, as well as unintended consequences. The eastward enlargement of the European Union is a case in point.
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Royall Tyler and Hungary
This story of Royall Tyler is in many ways unique: an American who was almost European, who became intimately involved with Central Europe.
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A Thorn in the Rosebush
This book opens up new perspectives on the history of Béla Bartók’s music in the 20th century.
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Tomáš G. Masaryk, a Scholar and a Statesman
the political thought of Thomas G. Masaryk (1850−1937), the first president of Czechoslovakia
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Forbidden Federalism: Secret Diplomacy and the Struggle for a Danubian Confederation: 1918-1921
Secret Diplomacy and the Struggle for a Danubian Confederation, 1918−1921 Zoltán Bécsi
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Lost Prestige
the story of the formation of Hungary’s image abroad before and during World War I
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Being Hungarian in Cleveland
In this work, historian Endre Szentkiralyi examines the concept of “being Hungarian in Cleveland”
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July 1944: Deportation of the Jews of Budapest Foiled
This volume investigates a little known controversy about the year 1944, in Hungary: did a unit of the Hungarian army prevent the deportation of 300,000 Jewish Hungarians to the Nazi death camps?
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Three Conspiracies
Field Marshall Rundstedt, Admiral Canaris, and the Jewish Engineer Who Could Have Saved Europe
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A Nation Adrift The 1944-1945 wartime diaries of Miksa Fenyő Az elsodort ország
This compelling, articulate and often painful diary was written while Miksa Fenyő, one of the most prominent public intellectuals in Hungary, was in hiding from the Gestapo and the Hungarian Fascist Arrow-Cross.
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Upcoming Publications
Balázs Ablonczy: Pál Teleki (1874-1941): The Life of a Controversial Hungarian Politician (Revised updated English language edition)
Reprinted and English translations of classic Hungarian historical works
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