History of Transilvania, hungarian version

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I found a hungarian "Transylvania, a short history", and this e-book gave me a wonderfull afternoon today, laughing out loud about what is written there.

The author of the book, Istvan Lazar, states at the end of his book that: "limitations in space prevent me from including the extensive bibliography of my source materials".
Well, wonderfull excuse for a book of history
He just says that he was helped by inspiring himself from: "The History of Transylvania, edited by Béla Kõpeczi and published in Hungarian by the Akadémia Kiadó in Budapest." Well, at least he helped me making a short description of the cited book!

But in the text are a lot of info's who need to be proved, as in oposite could be regarded as without any value.

So, I'm sure that you guys can enjoy a good laugh anytime at ... http://historicaltextarchive.com/books.php...wbook&bookid=14

[Dénes]

I don't know who this István Lázár is, and I don't have time, or will, to read his book.

What I can tell though is that the three-volume "History of Transylvania", authored by members of the Hungarian Scientific Academy, edited by Béla Köpeczi, and published by the Akadémiai Kiadó in Budapest, in 1986, is a serious, scholarly reference work (although, because it was published in the mid-1980s, when still the Communists were on power, the book was somewhat 'toned down' as not to upset too much the 'neighbouring and friendly' country - Rumanian Socialist Republic, that is).

By the way, there is an English version of this book as well. So, if curious, you may try to find a copy (although it's a bit pricey):
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResu...sts=t&x=37&y=17

Here is an on-line version, in Hungarian only:
http://mek.oszk.hu/02100/02109/html/

Alternatively, you may read a short presentation of the book, by Martyn Rady (Univ. of London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies), in: Slav. East Eur. rev. - Leeds. - 66. vol. 3. no. (July 1988), p. 482-485 [I haven't read it myself].

Gen. Dénes

This post has been edited by Dénes on January 06, 2008 07:42 pm

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Well, the book of Istvan Lazar was posted on a site that is described by it's owner as:

"The HTA publishes high quality articles, books, essays, documents, historical photos, and links, screened for content, for a broad range of historical subjects. It was founded in 1990 in Mississippi and is one of the oldest history sites on the Internet."

It's adress is http://historicaltextarchive.com/

The same "documented" site also display General Bandholtz's diary from ww1, subject which started a discussion if it is biased or not http://www.worldwar2.ro/forum/index.php?showtopic=145&st=45 . It is exactly the book with the same characters at the begining: Kruger and Simon.

This was already off-topic, just to underline the profesionalism of some sites which publish on the net good books in the domain of comics "...high quality articles, books, essays, documents, historical photos, and links, screened for content..."

So, guys, enjoy the cartoon site