Paul Lendvai is a leading European journalist and a senior television commentator with ORF, the Austrian public broadcasting corporation. Since 1973 he has been editor in chief and copublisher of the Vienna-based international quarterly Europäische Rundschau. The recipient of numerous prizes for his writings and journalism, he is the author of ten books, including Blacklisted: A Journalist's Life in Central Europe (St. Martin's), Eagles in Cobwebs: Nationalism and Communism in the Balkans, and Anti-Semitism without the Jews: Communist Eastern Europe (both Doubleday).
"[A] glorious, immensely readable book."
*Economist*
"A pleasure to read. . . . Mr. Lendvai has done a remarkable job.
His book is easily the best history of Hungary in English. . . .
What's remarkable is how many extraordinary individuals, admirable
and otherwise, we come across in this small nation's
history."---Stephen Goode, Washington Times
"The writing of national histories is . . . justified by the
erudition and intellectual brilliance of the [author]. To this one
must add, as a special attraction, the charm, wit and healthy
cynicism of The Hungarians."---Istvan Deak, Times Literary
Supplement
"[R]ewarding, entertaining, and well written. . . . [F]ar more
substantial than the witty musings to be found, for example, in
Luigi Barzini's The Italians. . . . No one who is interested in
Hungary should miss reading this book."---Nicolas Parsons,
Hungarian Quarterly
"An outstanding storyteller. [Lendvai] not only presents
scientifically based facts and analysis but also tells the reader a
story. . .. A compact overview of Hungarian history, a wonderful
collection of biographical sketches and a subtle description of the
'Hungarian temperament'."
*Neue Zürcher Zeitung*
"Excellently researched and masterfully constructed, this should
become a standard work. . . . The book reads almost like a novel
with historical background. . . . Most warmly recommended."
*Die Presse*
"An exhaustive history of the Hungarian people. . . . The author
has written a sympathetic account of Hungarian history. Yet the
book also exposes the blemishes along with the heroism. . . . For
those interested in the history of a art of Europe that has been
shrouded in mystery and cliché, it's a helpful handbook."---Anne
Gyulai, The Montreal Gazette
"It is history's destiny to stare helplessly as the past's effects
on facts have them act no differently on our minds and bodies than
do fictions. In his loving rendering of Hungary's troubled saga,
Lendvai has shown us how our knowledge and memory are a tangle of
both threads."---Norman Madarasz, The European Legacy
"When Paul Lendvai, the indefatigable observer of Eastern Europe,
writes a book, he has in general something exciting to relate. . .
. Lendvai's book is a well-constructed mixture of historical facts,
political judgments, and cultural anecdotes."
*Der Spiegel*
"Lendvai has written a standard-setting work, always at the highest
level of historical research yet so eminently readable, so
entertaining—only a journalist out of passion with profound
knowledge of history is able to write in this way. . . . Lendvai's
presentation of the thousand years of Hungarian history in Europe
is not only comprehensive, it is also just."
*Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung*
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