John Lukacs

John Lukacs is a historian. His most recent books are The Legacy of the Second World War (Yale University Press, 2010); Through the History of the Cold War: The Correspondence of George F. Kennan and John Lukacs (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010); and the forthcoming The Future of History (Yale University Press, Spring 2011).


Essays

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The Importance of Being Winston

| 12.16.10

The British Bulldog's unique ability to win Stalin's respect and trust in August 1942 proved that great national leadership matters.

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The Poverty of Anti-Communism

| 03.01.99

American anti-Communists distorted and corrupted the domestic political scene with exaggerations of a threat that was never as strong--or worrisome--as they pretended it to be.

Reviews

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A People of Extraordinary Contradictions

| 09.01.03

A history of the Hungarians, by a Hungarian, for everyone.

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1945 and All That

| 09.01.01

Well-trained historians need not be specialists, as P.M.H. Bell's illuminating new volume confirms.

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The Real Synthesis

| 12.01.00

A "new history" of the Third Reich fails to understand the true nature of the regime.

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May 20, 2013