“HUNGARY, A SHORT HISTORY”

Professor Norman Stone who will discuss his recently released book on Hungary, “Hungary, A Short History”.  Covering a period from approximately the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 up to the modern era, this latest book is an impressive addition to the other works of one of Britain’s most famous historians.

NORMAN STONE (Glasgow, 1941) is a British historian, former student then lecturer at the University of Cambridge, professor of history at the University of Oxford, and was a professor of International Relations at the University of Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey. He was also an advisor and speech writer to the British Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and is the author of many books on twentieth century history, including The Eastern Front 1914–17 (1975), Hitler (1980), Europe Transformed, 1878–1919 (1983), The Other Russia (1990), and The Atlantic and Its Enemies: A Personal History of the Cold War (2010)