Berlitz. Hungary.
Brief, basic, informative.

Leigh Fremor, Patric. Time of Gifts.
Marvelous recreation of a bygone era. Imagine walking through Hungary.

Meray, Tibor. That Day in Budapest - October 23, l956.
The uprising against the Soviets, hour-by-hour.

Porter, Monica. The Paper Bridge: A Return to Budapest.
Twenty-five years after the 1956 revolution, a woman seeks her roots.

Starkie, Walter. Raggle Taggle.
An unconventional travel memoir. Starkie fiddles his way across Hungary before the war, meeting peasants, and gypsies.

Volgyes, Ivan. Hungary: A Nation of Contradictions.

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