Twelve years after the highly successful Trianon-Legendák volume, BALÁZS ABLONCZY tracked down new stories surrounding the Trianon Peace Treaty.
The author researched archival sources never before seen by a Hungarian historian among the documents of the Grand Orient Masonic Grand Lodge in Paris to answer the question: could the Masons really be responsible for the division of Hungary? Could Field Marshal Mackensen really have defended Transylvania in the fall of 1918? Were some of the Hungarian railway tracks really taken up because of Trianon? What local stories are associated with the on-site border determinations and what is behind them? Is it true that the Romanian military officers who occupied Budapest wore lipstick? Who really was the fictional poet whose poem became a must-have piece of Trianon literature between the two world wars? Did Albert Apponyi really say everything that social media and politicians' speeches attribute to him? Finally, will Trianon "expire" after a hundred years?
The author researched the origin of the legends, examined the circumstances of their origin, and in his book tries to separate the legend, the reality, and the intentional falsification. Knowing the real background of the Peace of Trianon is an important part of national self-knowledge: this volume helps to recognize mistakes and forgery.

BALÁZS ABLONCZY was born in 1974 in Budapest. Historian, lecturer at Eötvös Loránd University and researcher at the ELKH BTK Institute of History, head of the Horthy-era department. Between 2011 and 2015, he was the director of the Hungarian Institute in Paris. From 2016, he is the head of the Trianon 100 Research Group supported by the MTA "Lendület" grant, his field of expertise is the Hungarian history of the first half of the twentieth century. He lives with his family in Budapest. His most recent volume at Jaffa Publishing House: Unknown Trianon - Stories of the Collapse and the Peace Treaty, 1918-1921 (2020).