Hungarian Borderlands: From the Habsburg Empire to the Axis Alliance, the Warsaw Pact and the European Union

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The publication of this perceptive analysis of the country's borders from the early twentieth century to the present provides a unique case study of statefrontier evolution in response to a range of internal and external forces. Furthermore, it highlights the ambiguities and complexities that face a small state caught between powerful regional neighbours. Finely-researched and elegantly written, Frank Schubert's book is also opportune. -- Dennis Deletent * Slavonic and East European Review (vol. 90, no. 3, July 2012) *
Schuberts book...captures past and present border events with an eye for detail, individual suffering, material realities and a warning about the dangers of mythologising certain aspects of life in the borderlands while repressing others. It is an elegant narrative about an explosive historical past... It is a multi-levelled account which deserves praise for its balanced approach to such an imbalanced subject. -- Ilse Josepha Lazaroms * European Review of History *
The volume provides an excellent combination of traditional history, local stories, and personal experience ... an interesting and illuminating read for both specialists and general readers. -- Vida Istvn Kornl, University of Debrecen, Hungary * H-Net Reviews *

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Frank N. Schubert worked as a historian in the U.S. Department of Defense from 1977 to his retirement in 2003, and was a Fulbright lecturer atBabes-Bolyai University in Cluj, Romania.