A unique and accessible history of Hungary from the Peace conferences to WWII.

Bryan Cartledge is a retired diplomat, who served in Sweden, the Soviet Union and Iran before being appointed, in 1977, to be Private Secretary (Overseas Affairs) to the British Prime Minister; he served both James Callaghan and Margaret Thatcher in that capacity before taking up his first ambassadorial appointment as British Ambassador to Hungary, in 1980. Cartledge left the Diplomatic Service in 1988 on his election to be Principal of Linacre College, Oxford. Earlier in his career, he was enlisted to assist Sir Anthony Eden (later the Earl of Avon) with the first volume of his memoirs. At Oxford, he edited six books on environmental issues. He holds diplomas in the Hungarian language from the Universities of Westminster and Debrecen (Hungary). His well-received history of Hungary, The Will to Survive, fulfils an aspiration which grew out of his deep interest in that country, where he lived for three years.