Hungary 1849: The Summer Campaign

The Hungarian War of Independence was one of the largest European conflicts of the 19th century, lasting a year, encompassing a dozen major battles and many smaller actions and sieges, with half a million men under arms by its end. Yet it remains strangely obscure and overlooked by the Anglophone world, perhaps because of the inaccessibility of Hungarian—language sources for most English readers, combined with the limited number of German—language sources due to Austria’s embarrassment abou...