This book is not about how present-day Hungary has recently lost so much of the prestige it won with its heroic uprising in 1956 and its role in the fall of the communist satellites in 1989.
Rather, it is the story of the formation of Hungary's image abroad before and during World War I.
G za Jeszenszky chronicles how the very favourable reputation of Hungary and the Hungarians, established in their 1848-49 war for a liberal constitution and independence from Habsburg absolutism, was serious.
Helena History Press Lost prestige: hungary's changing image in britain 1894--1918, hardcover/géza jeszenszky
