<div>A distinguished historian and Budapest native offers a rich and eloquent portrait of one of the great European cities at the height of its powers. Budapest, like Paris and Vienna, experienced a remarkable exfoliation at the end of the nineteenth century. In terms of population growth, material expansion, and cultural exuberance, it was among the foremost metropolitan centers of the world, the cradle of such talents as Bart&oacute;k, Kod&aacute;ly, Kr&uacute;dy, Ady, Moln&aacute;r, Koestler, Szil&aacute;rd, and von Neumann, among others. John Lukacs provides a cultural and historical portrait of the city&mdash;its sights, sounds, and inhabitants; the artistic and material culture; its class dynamics; the essential role played by its Jewish population&mdash;and a historical perspective that describes the ascendance of the city and its decline into the maelstrom of the twentieth century. Intimate and engaging, Budapest 1900 captures the glory of a city at the turn of the century, poised at the moment of its greatest achievements, yet already facing the demands of a new age. &ldquo;Lukacs&rsquo;s Budapest, like Hemingway&rsquo;s Paris, is a moveable feast.&rdquo; &mdash;Chilton Williamson &ldquo;Lukacs&rsquo;s book is a lyrical, sometimes dazzling, never merely nostalgic evocation of a glorious period in the city&rsquo;s history.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Review of Books &ldquo;A reliable account of a beautiful city at the zenith of its prosperity.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly</div>

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<div>A thoughtful look at the value of learning from the past: &ldquo;Nobody has done more than John Lukacs to turn the short history book into an art form&rdquo; (Antony Beevor, Toronto Globe &amp; Mail). To study history is to learn about oneself. And to fail to grasp the importance of the past&mdash;to remain ignorant of the deeds and writing of previous generations&mdash;is to bind oneself by the passions and prejudices of the age into which one is born. John Lukacs, one of today&rsquo;s most widely published historians, explains what the study of history entails, how it has been approached over the centuries, and why it should be undertaken by today&rsquo;s students. This guide is an invitation to become a master of the historian&rsquo;s craft.</div>

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<div>&ldquo;Lukacs convincingly portrays a leader of an empire in irreversible decline and a towering, if flawed, hero of our time.&rdquo;&mdash;Publishers Weekly In previous works, John Lukacs told the story of Winston Churchill&rsquo;s titanic struggle with Adolf Hitler in the early days of World War II. Now, he turns his attention to the man himself, the workings of his historical imagination, and his successes and failures as a visionary statesman. Chapter by chapter, Lukacs assesses Churchill&rsquo;s vital relationships with Stalin, Roosevelt, and Eisenhower; his complex, farsighted political vision concerning the coming of WWII and the Cold War; his abilities as a historian looking backward into the origins of the conflicts of which he was so much a part; and the often contradictory ways in which he has been perceived by critics and admirers alike. In addition, Lukacs describes his three days spent in London attending Churchill&rsquo;s funeral in 1965. &ldquo;Superb&hellip;[a] tour de force.&rdquo;&mdash;Foreign Affairs &ldquo;Lukacs&rsquo; ability to meld the scholarly with the popular is much in evidence here.&rdquo;&mdash;Booklist </div>

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<div>This day-by-day account of the maneuvering between Britain and Germany in 1940 is &ldquo;a wonderful story wonderfully told&rdquo; (George F. Will, New York Times-bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner). During the late spring and early summer of 1940, Hitler was poised on the edge of absolute victory, having advanced rapidly through a large part of Europe&mdash;and Britain was threatened by imminent invasion and defeat. From the acclaimed author of Five Days in London, May 1940, this book tells the story of two leaders facing off against each other, and the decisions they made that shaped the eventual outcome of the Second World War. &ldquo;Powerful&hellip;An impressive study [written] with elegance and panache.&rdquo;&mdash;The New York Times &ldquo;A master of narrative history on a par with Barbara Tuchman and Garrett Mattingly.&rdquo;&mdash;Kirkus Reviews &ldquo;An often witty and always fascinating&mdash;even entertaining&mdash;writer.&rdquo;&mdash;TheWashington Post</div>

The Duel

<div>A &ldquo;gripping [and] splendidly readable&rdquo; portrait of the battle within the British War Cabinet&mdash;and Churchill&rsquo;s eventual victory&mdash;as Hitler&rsquo;s shadow loomed (The Boston Globe). From May 24 to May 28, 1940, members of Britain&rsquo;s War Cabinet debated whether to negotiate with Hitler or to continue what became known as the Second World War. In this magisterial work, John Lukacs takes us hour by hour into the critical events at 10 Downing Street, where Winston Churchill and his cabinet painfully considered their responsibilities. With the unfolding of the disaster at Dunkirk, and Churchill being in office for just two weeks and treated with derision by many, he did not have an easy time making his case&mdash;but the people of Britain were increasingly on his side, and he would prevail. This compelling narrative, a Washington Post bestseller, is the first to convey the drama and world-changing importance of those days. &ldquo;[A] fascinating work of historical reconstruction.&rdquo;&mdash;The Wall Street Journal &ldquo;Eminent historian Lukacs delivers the crown jewel to his long and distinguished career.&rdquo;&mdash;Publishers Weekly (starred review) &ldquo;A must for every World War II buff.&rdquo;&mdash;Cleveland Plain Dealer &ldquo;Superb&hellip;can be compared to such classics as Hugh Trevor-Roper&rsquo;s The Last Days of Hitler and Barbara Tuchman&rsquo;s The Guns of August.&rdquo;&mdash;Harper&rsquo;s Magazine</div>

Five Days in London, May 1940

<div>An accomplished historian delves into his own history: &ldquo;An often witty and always fascinating&mdash;even entertaining&mdash;writer.&rdquo;&mdash;TheWashington Post In Confessions of an Original Sinner, an adroit blend of autobiography and personal philosophy, historian John Lukacs paused to set down the history of his own thoughts and beliefs. Now, in Last Rites, he continues and expands his reflections, this time integrating his conception of history and human knowledge with private memories of his wives and loves, and enhancing the book with footnotes from his idiosyncratic diaries. The resulting volume is fascinating and delightful&mdash;an auto-history by a passionate, authentic, brilliant, and witty man. Lukacs begins with a concise rendering of a historical understanding of our world (essential reading for any historian), then follows with trenchant observations on his life in the United States, commentary on his native Hungary and the new meanings it took for him after 1989, and deeply personal portraits of his three wives, about whom he has not written before. He also includes a chapter on his formative memories of May and June 1940 and of Winston Churchill, a subject in some of Lukacs&rsquo;s later studies. Last Rites is a richly layered summation combined with a set of extraordinary observations&mdash;an original book only John Lukacs could have written </div>

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Books By John Lukacs (6 Books)

Budapest 1900

A Student's Guide to the Study of History

Churchill

The Duel

Five Days in London, May 1940

Last Rites

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The Duel

Five Days in London, May 1940

Last Rites

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