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A thousand years of the Hungarian art of war |
Cover | |
Preface | I |
Acknowledgement | III |
Introduction | 1 |
Part I. Hungarian Soldiers - Hungarian Strategy | |
I. Conquest of the Carpathian Basin | 9 |
II. The Mongol Invasion of 1241 | 17 |
III. Janos Hunyadi, Champion of Christendom | 25 |
IV. Hungarian Renaissance Warfare | 33 |
V. Military Theoretician and General Count Zrinyi | 39 |
VI. Kuruc Warfare in 1703-1711 | 43 |
VII. A Daring Raid on Berlin | 55 |
VIII. Nation in Arms, 1 848-1849 | 69 |
IX. K.u.K. Army and the Honvedseg | 83 |
X. Defense of Hungary Under Red Flags | 97 |
XI. Hungarian Soldiers in Foreign Armies | 105 |
Part II. Hungarian Soldiers - German Strategy | |
XII. Rebirth of the Honvedseg | 117 |
XIII. Hungarian Troops on the Eastern Front | 127 |
XIV. Operations of the Second Army, 1942-43. | 139 |
XV. Defense of the Homeland Against Soviet Invasion, 1944-1945 | 147 |
Conclusion | 165 |
Epilogue | 169 |
Notes | 171 |
Selected Bibliography | 200 |
LIST OF PLANS
1. The Battle of Augsburg 14
2. The Battle for Nandor-Fejervar 24
3. Frederick's General Situation 60
4. Raid of Hadik on Berlin 62
5. Spring Campaign, 1849 68
6. Potiorek's Operations 90
7. Battle of Limanova 94
8. Campaign of the Red Army 100
9. Map of Central Europe 104
10. Map of Hungary 1938-1941 116
11. Operations of the Mechanized Corps 126
12. Soviet Strategic Plan 142
13. Invasion of Hungary 146
Note:
Plans No. 1-2 are based on Erdelyi, Art of War;
Plans No. 3-6 on Vajna-Naday, War History; Plan No. 7 on Pilch, Hungarian
Soldier;
Plan No. 8 on Molnar, History of Hungary;
Plans No. 11 - 12 on Dalnoki-Veress, Hungary's National Defense Forces.
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A thousand years of the Hungarian art of war |