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100	1		_aSebestyen, Victor, _d1956- _eauthor. _9125232
245	1	0	_aBudapest : _bbetween East and West / _cVictor Sebestyen.
264		1	_aLondon : _bWeidenfeld & Nicolson, _c2022.
264		4	_c©2022.
300			_a418 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations, maps, portraits ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent.
336			_acartographic image _bcri _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aThe dramatic story of Budapest, a city on the fault line between East and West in the heart of Europe. Wallis Simpson, Theodore Roosevelt, Benito Mussolini, Evelyn Waugh, the great tenor Luciano Pavarotti, and the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, were all agreed: the best thing about Budapest is its position. With the Danube, Budapest forms one of the most beautiful cityscapes that exist along a river. The older side, Buda, looks over at the picture-postcard panorama of modern Pest, developed in the late nineteenth century as the twin capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. But the city is full of reminders of a more distant past, from the second century AD when the Romans located thermal springs in Buda. For around two hundred years from the 1520s most of Hungary was occupied by the Ottoman Turks - just one of the periods when geography and politics placed the country directly on the faultline between East and West. Throughout history the centre of gravity in Budapest and among Hungarians has shifted between East and West - culturally, politically, emotionally. The shifts have sometimes been violent. Victor Sebestyen describes revolutions, bloody battles, the Uprising of 1956 and wars of conquest: some won, some lost. Others were more peaceful, although the repercussions were no less significant: for example, the fall of Soviet-style Communism. The story of Budapest is dramatic, and full of extraordinary, colourful personalities. This is history on the grand scale.
651		0	_aBudapest (Hungary) _xHistory. _9125233
651		0	_aBudapest (Hungary) _xCivilization. _9125234
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