The Royal Hungarian Army was Germany's largest ally on the Eastern Front, but information about the Hungarian Army in English is rare. Deployed in Ukraine at the beginning of the war, the Hungarian Army was involved in a number of brutal encounters with the Red Army, including stubborn resistance in Transylvania in the summer of 1944, and the brave defense of Budapest in the face of overwhelming odds. The Hungarian Army was a varied and colourful force, ranging from mountain troops and tank units to horse cavalry and specialist infantry. All of these are illustrated in full-colour artwork, with full details about the Hungarian Army's own, quite distinct uniforms and insignia as well as many of its own weapons and tanks. This is an essential starter resource for wargamers, modelers, re-enactors and military historians.

Dr NIGEL THOMAS is an accomplished linguist and military historian, formerly a Principal Lecturer at Northumbria University, now a freelance military author, translator and military uniform consultant. His interests are 20th century military and civil uniformed organizations, with a special interest in Germany, Central and Eastern Europe. He was awarded a PhD on the Eastern enlargement of NATO. LÁZLÓ PÁL SZÁBÓ is a freelance translator and software nationalization specialist. His hobby is military history, especially 19th and 20th century military organizations and insignia, with a particular interest in the United Kingdom, and the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and its successors. He has authored articles and books on information technology; this is his first book on military history.

Introduction · Organization of Royal Hungarian Army 1939 · Occupations of Slovakian, Rutheniand and Yugoslavian territory, 1938-41 · Operation Barbarossa: Mobile Group, Mobile Corps and Carpathian Group on the Ukraine, June-November 1941 · Occupation Corps in the Ukraine, 1942 · 2nd Army on the Don, June 1942-January 1943 · Anti-partisan warfare 1943 · Soviet/Rumanian offensive, August 1944 - defence of Transylvania · Replacement of Horthy government by Arrow-Cross regime, October 1944 · Defence and fall of Budapest, December 1944-February 1945 · Pro-German and pro-Soviet units: Czechoslovakia and Austria, December 1944-May 1945.