The Last Battle for Saint Stephen's Crown

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the last battle for saint stephen's crown A documentary of the recent history of the Hungárián Holy Crown. Attila Simontsits The Hungárián Holy Crown is one of the world's few true symbols of freedom and shares a place with the Constitution of the United States in commanding the commmitment of a peopie to the precepts it represents. This book presents the legacy of the Holy Crown and documents the long and convoluted series of events that culminated in the Holy Crown being given to the communist regime of Hungary on January 6, 1978 after being in the custody of the United States since the end of World War II. The series of events that unfolds before us, as faithfully documented in the originál documents, is as intriguing and suspenseful as any mystery thriller, and the players, from Patton to Carter, are just as major. Many of the most significant documents presented here concerning the Holy Crown and how it came to the United States after the tragic events of World War II were... Tovább

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the last battle for saint stephen's crown A documentary of the recent history of the Hungárián Holy Crown. Attila Simontsits The Hungárián Holy Crown is one of the world's few true symbols of freedom and shares a place with the Constitution of the United States in commanding the commmitment of a peopie to the precepts it represents. This book presents the legacy of the Holy Crown and documents the long and convoluted series of events that culminated in the Holy Crown being given to the communist regime of Hungary on January 6, 1978 after being in the custody of the United States since the end of World War II. The series of events that unfolds before us, as faithfully documented in the originál documents, is as intriguing and suspenseful as any mystery thriller, and the players, from Patton to Carter, are just as major. Many of the most significant documents presented here concerning the Holy Crown and how it came to the United States after the tragic events of World War II were until quite recently top-secret and unavailable. The events are presented in chronological order. From the end of World War II until today, a comprehensive collection of articles, statements and speeches are made available that testify to the unique influence of the Holy Crown on America's presidents and on statesmen of many nations. In a balanced, and truly unbiased manner, Simontsits presents these documents of prominent personalities around the world. The Last Battle for Saint Stephen's Crown chronicles in extensive detail how the battle for the crown shaped up in the final days, building to a crescendo of expressed public opinion in all the major daily newspapers and news média, and accompanied by a flurry of Vissza