I was looking up the Austro-Hungarian Empire this morning after reading about the Russian efforts in that vicinity during the Great War, and I came across the name of Miklós Horthy. I'd been familiar with Admiral Horthy's name through my reading on the Second World War, but I knew virtually nothing about the man. (In truth, I believe I simply thought "Hey, cool, an admiral running a country" when I was much younger and went from there.)

A quick jaunt over to the Wikipedia gave me Miklós Horthy, and after skimming it, took a look at the links. Therein, I found an annotated copy of Admiral Horthy's memoirs, prepared by a Professor Andrew L. Simon, emeritus of the University of Akron.

His Serene Highness the Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary Admiral Horthy, c. 1921

It's over three hundred pages, so I won't finish it any time soon, but I'm very interested in reading about the old chap---he seems to have been on the front lines of containing Communism on Western Europe's borders, so it's got to be interesting. One wonders how it will measure up to say Doenitz or Raeder.

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