"Since the regime change, which opened a new era in Hungarian history, Ignác Romsics undertook for the first time to review the history of Hungary from the beginning to the present in one volume.
The large-scale work of more than 600 pages discusses Hungarian history in five chapters - in an easy-to-understand and readable style. In the first chapter, the author summarizes the formation of the Hungarian people and their settlement in the Carpathian basin, as well as the related theories. The second subject is the history of the medieval Hungarian kingdom, and in the third chapter we can read about the Turkish invasion, the country's division into three parts, and the different development of the three political units. The time limits of the fourth chapter are from the end of the 18th century to 1918-19, in the last, fifth chapter, we can read about the Horthy era, our two great traumas of the 20th century: Trianon and the Holocaust, and then, moving on, we can read about state socialism, and the era of the Soviet occupation and we are talking about the last quarter of a century. The basic organizing principle of the volume is the chronology, and its backbone is the history of the state and state politics, but at the same time, there is much talk about the development of economic, social and cultural conditions, as well as changes in lifestyle.
The text, which follows the best traditions of scientific dissemination, is accompanied by rich illustrative material (maps, reproductions and photos), as well as a geographical and personal name index.
This work is not intended for specialists of individual eras, but for the widest possible range of people interested in Hungarian history.