Banffy s extraordinary novel set in Hungary and Transylvania in the years before the First World War and published in Hungary between 1934 and 1940 is of a Tolstoyan quality and range that recalls the greatest Russian and French novelists of the nineteenth century.
Mikl s Banffy (1873-1950) was a Hungarian nobleman with extensive
estates in Hungarian Transylvania (now Romania), first patron of
Bela Bartok and briefly Hungarian foreign minister after WW1. His
castle and great library were deliberately destroyed by the
retreating Nazis in 1944.
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Hugh Thomas is the author of The Spanish Civil War, Cuba, or the
Pursuit of Freedom and a trilogy about the Spanish Empire. He was
Professor of History at Reading University and has also served in
the Foreign Office and as Chairman of the Centre for Policy
Studies. His books include novels, biographies and political as
well as historical works.He became a Life Peer in 1981 as Baron
Thomas of Swynnerton.
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