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At the End of an Age
John Lukacs
Yale University Press, 2003
If Lukacs is right the implications are mind boggling
Fleeing from a not yet wholly Sovietized Hungary to the US, Lukacs was convinced 20 years ago that the entire Modern Age was crumbling fast. By 2002 he was able to write that during the past 10 years his conviction had hardened into an unquestioning belief that not ...
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Budapest 1900: A Historical Portrait of a City and Its Culture
John Lukacs
Grove Press, 1994
Bravo!
Reading this book took me on a trip to an age when things were golden. I was able to see places I have been and picture myself in those times. The christian-jewish relationships were a model that can be likened-to today's America. I enjoyed the section about the ...
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George Kennan: A Study of Character
John Lukacs
Yale University Press, 2009
A Civilized Man
This remarkable book is both an act of filial piety and a reference point for future historians: Kennan must be taken seriously, must endure, and must be seen at least as one of the important ships in a small--and not growing-- flotilla of great American statesmen. ...
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Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Dire Warning: Churchill?s First Speech as Prime Minister
JOHN R LUKACS
Basic Books, 2008
A Great Insight
into a great man! We see Churchill as vulnerable at times losing confidence...actually human. This historian does a wonderful job painting with words a look at an important period in our history and at the man who was the leader. Highly recommended.
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The Duel: The Eighty-Day Struggle Between Churchill and Hitler
John Lukacs
Yale University Press, 2001
The mother of all "what if's".
More than the new fad of "what if's". What one man and those that stood by him in those days did for us all. The younger generation should, or rather must, realize how much they owe to WSC to be able to read these lines !
jan breman
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June 1941: Hitler and Stalin
John Lukacs
Yale University Press, 2007
June 1941: Eminent historian John Lukacs' explanation of Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union
June 1941 is a succinct essay on Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941. The format is similar to his work "Duel: Churchill vs Hitler" dealing with the beginning of World War II in the West. The book is a good introduction to the motivations and men who ...
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The Siege of Budapest: One Hundred Days in World War II
Krisztian Ungvary
Yale University Press, 2006
Beautifully written history
I enjoyed this book cover to cover. Refreshingly free of of the snotty professorial moral outrage present in so many English WW2 histories. Not that the author doesn't convey the horror wrought by both Germans and Russians on the Hungarians- he does so in a calm step ...
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Five Days in London: May 1940
John Lukacs
Yale University Press, 2001
It's caviar.
Several reviewers here don't appreciate scholarly writing. Lukacs (and his editor) didn't adulterate concise prose to produce a coffee table book. There are no fictions here; its conclusions are based on carefully and voluminously researched facts. Lukacs HAD to ...
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Students Guide To Study Of History: History Guide (Guides To Major Disciplines)
John Lukacs
Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2000
Excellent
Excellent book that can be easily read in one sitting!
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Last Rites
John Lukacs
Yale University Press, 2009
Twenty years ago, John Lukacs paused to set down the history of his own thoughts and beliefs in "Confessions of an Original Sinner", an adroit blend of autobiography and personal philosophy. Now, in "Last Rites", he continues and expands his reflections, this time integrating his conception of history and human knowledge with private memories of ...
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Confessions of an Original Sinner
John Lukacs
St. Augustine's Press, 2000
Thoughtful and Inisghtful View of Life
This is no doubt one the most heartfelt and honest memoirs I have ever read. John Lucaks, teacher and historian, tells us early on of how he escaped from Hungary shortly after World War II. He lived under the Nazi's and then the Communists, despised both, and then ...
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Sunflower (New York Review Books Classics)
Gyula Krudy
NYRB Classics, 2007
And, wrapped in black veils, night crept away, like a woman's once undying love
Sunflower is like a fairy tale, only more like a dream. Eveline, a "country miss" living in Budapest, has her house broken into by her former fiancé, a wastrel who's been using her for money. Next morning she packs up the household and returns to her country estate, ...
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The Last European War: September 1939 - December 1941
John Lukacs
Yale University Press, 2001
A Great Book
One day in 1982 when I was a grad student at Vandy this book caught my eye. I started reading it and kept doing so for the next few days, until I finished it. I never actually took it out of the library, I just read it instead of doing the work I was supposed to be ...
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Historical Consciousness: The Remembered Past (Library of Conservative Thought)
John Lukacs
Transaction Publishers, 1994
Historical Consciousness
While studying for a Master's degree in history in the 90s, I found John Lukacs "Historical Consciousness" one of two influential contemporary history books (the other being Ernst Breisach's "Historiography") that influenced my views on historiography - the study or ...
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A Defence of History and Class Consciousness
Georg Lukacs, Slavoj Zizek, ...
Verso, 2000
Vital missing link in intellectual history
Lukacs' text is comprised of two parts: I. Problems of Class Consciousness, II. Dialectic of Nature. Lukacs defends his seminal work History and Class Consciousness (1923) against his principal intellectual attackers in the Comintern, Abram Deborin and Laszlo Rudas. ...
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