30. HOW TO WIN BY LOSING

Franz Ferdinand - the Hungarophobe * The Theory of Daco-Roman Continuity * The Vision of a "Great Rumania" * Admirable Flexibility or Contemptible Duplicity? * A Policy of Wait-and-See * Fence-Sitting Ends with a Fall - and a Rise. A Repeat Performance * The "Art" of Multiple-Dealing * An Unprecedented Personal Cult * Hungarians Marked for Annihilation * The Defiant Ones * The US Congress Steps In * Two Books as Eye Openers * A "Grand Design"-With Consequences * Worldwide Uproar Condemns Ceausescu * Rumanians Fed Up, Too * "A Mighty Fortress Is Our Church" * An Apocalyptic Finale * Euphoria Turns into a New Ordeal * Pogrom in Tirgu-Mures * Reconciliation Torpedoed by Extremists

31. BROTHERLY LOVE-AND HATE

A Love-Hate Triangle * A "Master-stroke" turns into a Blunder * The "Pig-War" * The "Black Hand" Strikes * "Yugoslavia" - Yes and No * The "Croatian Golgotha" * The Epitome of Balkanization * Hungarian Ethnic Strength Weakened * The Unraveling of Yugoslavia * Pan-Serbianism on the March

32. THE TRIUMPH OF PROPAGANDA

The Specter of Panslavism * The Pull of Czech Temptation * The "Mafia" * The Subtle Art of Propaganda * The "Danger" of an Early Peace is Averted * Propaganda is Extended to America * An Unexpected Windfall: the Czech "Anabasis" * Did Truth Prevail? * The Program of Kosice/Kassa * Outlawed... * Hungarian Minority Out in the Cold Again * "Velvet divorce" with Hard Consequences

33. THE MAGYAR ROAD TO TRIANON

A Society of Contrast * The Two Tiszas * The Changing Fortunes of War * The Peace Efforts are Frustrated * Toward the Abyss... * The Red Star Rises over Hungary * An American General as Hero of Hungary

34. TRIANON; HUNGARY DISMEMBERED

The First Victims: Two Slovak Leaders * The "Guilty Magyars" * The Dismemberment * Hungarian Reaction to Trianon * Trianon - 75 years later...

35. THE HORTHY ERA (1920-1944)

That Day in November,.. * "A Raid on the Reds" * Independence with Drawbacks * Hungary, the "Unforgiven" * A Gentleman with a Political Shortcoming * Hungarian Minorities in the Successor States * Rumania * Hungary's Isolation is Dissolved * A Visit to Hitler * The Little Entente Breaks Up * A Noble Hungarian * Intermezzo in Copenhagen * Hungary is Tied to the Axis * Catastrophic Military Defeat at the Don * A Sanctuary for Jews

36. THE CARPATHIAN BASIN: HOMELAND OF NATIONS

A Cultural Borderline * The Carpathian Mystique * In lieu of footnotes...

37. THE STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE OF THE CARPATHIAN BASIN

Invasions Against the Carpathian Basin * The Break-up of the Carpathian Frontier * The Strange Case of Ruthenia * "A Fateful Milestone..." * From Genocide to Revivalism * Yet Another Change of Masters...

38. GLORY IN DEFEAT (1945-1956)

The Red Gang of Four * Two Black Eyes for the Reds * "Salami Tactics" * The Rear-Guard Fights on... * The Last Bastion: the Church * In the Claws of Stalinism - Rákosi-style * Premonitory Rumblings of an Eruption * The "Volcano" Erupts... * The Child-Heroes of Budapest * The Phoenix of Freedom Emerges

39. GLORY IN VICTORY

A Red Letter Day * The "Opium" of Goulash Communism * Nation Led toward Ruin * Opposition on the Rise * Prelude to a Grand Finale * And Then Came the Earthquake * Dawning of a New Era

40. A NATION WITHOUT BOUNDARIES

A Victory That Wasn't

Stephen Sisa : The Spirit of Hungary