Description

The Royal Hungarian Army was Germany's largest ally on the Eastern Front, but information about the Hungarian Army in English is rare.

Deployed in Ukraine at the beginning of the war, the Hungarian Army was involved in a number of brutal encounters with the Red Army, including stubborn resistance in Transylvania in the summer of 1944, and the brave defense of Budapest in the face of overwhelming odds.

The Hungarian Army was a varied and colourful force, ranging from mountain troops and tank units to horse cavalry and specialist infantry. All of these are illustrated in full-colour artwork, with full details about the Hungarian Army's own, quite distinct uniforms and insignia as well as many of its own weapons and tanks.

This is an essential starter resource for wargamers, modelers, re-enactors and military historians.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Organization of Royal Hungarian Army 1939
Occupations of Slovakian, Rutheniand and Yugoslavian territory, 1938-41
Operation Barbarossa: Mobile Group, Mobile Corps and Carpathian Group on the Ukraine, June-November 1941
Occupation Corps in the Ukraine, 1942
2nd Army on the Don, June 1942-January 1943
Anti-partisan warfare 1943
Soviet/Rumanian offensive, August 1944 - defence of Transylvania
Replacement of Horthy government by Arrow-Cross regime, October 1944
Defence and fall of Budapest, December 1944-February 1945
Pro-German and pro-Soviet units: Czechoslovakia and Austria, December 1944-May 1945

Product details

Published Jan 20 2012
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 48
ISBN 9781780963341
Imprint Osprey Publishing
Illustrations 38 b/w; 8 col
Series Men-at-Arms
Short code MAA 449
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Nigel Thomas

NIGEL THOMAS PhD is an accomplished linguist and m…

Author

Laszlo Szabo

László Pál Szábó is a freelance translator and sof…

Illustrator

Darko Pavlovic

Darko Pavlovic was born in 1959 and currently live…

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