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The Phoenix Land

The Phoenix Land

by PatrickLeighFermor (Foreword), Miklos Banffy (Author), PatrickThursfield (Foreword), KatalinBanff-Jelen (Foreword)

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    Paperback 2003

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Synopsis

The 1000-year-old kingdom of Hungary, which formed a major part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, was dismembered by the Allies in 1918. Phoenix-like, the Hungarian people survived the horrors of war, the disappointment of the first socialist republic, the disillusion of the brief but terrifying rule of Bela Kun and the bitterness of seeing their beloved country dismembered by the Treaty of Trianon. This is the world Miklos Banffy, author of the hugely popular Transylvanian Trilogy (Arcadia), describes in his arresting memoir.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 444
 Edition: illustrated edition
 Publisher: Arcadia Books
Published: 01 Apr 2003
ISBN 10: 1900850850
ISBN 13: 9781900850858

Media Reviews
'Fascinating. He writes about his quirky border lairds and squires and the high misty forest ridges and valleys of Transylvania with something of the ache that Czeslaw Milosz brings to the contemplation of this lost Eden' - W. L. Webb, Guardian 'Pleasure of a different scale and kind. It is a sort of Galworthisn panorama of life in the dying years of the Habsburg Empire - perfect late night reading for nostalgic romantics like me' - Jane Morris, Observer Books of the Year
Author Bio
Count Miklos Banffy (1873-1950) was variously a diplomat, MP and foreign minister in 1921/22 when he signed the peace treaty with the United States and obtained Hungary's admission to the League of Nations. He was also responsible for organizing the last Habsburg coronation, that of King Karl in 1916. His Transylvanian Trilogy (They Were Counted, They Were Found Wanting and They Were Divided) was published before the outbreak of the Second World War. It was ignored under the communists, and has recently been republished to acclaim in his native country.