Admiral Nicholas Horthy: Memoirs

Admiral Nicholas Horthy

• Publisher: Braunfell Books
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781805231998
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Military & Maritime History
• Index: History

Admiral Nicholas Horthy was the Ruler of the Kingdom of Hungary during the interwar years and throughout most of World War II, serving from 1 Mar 1920 to 15 Oct. 1944...Horthy is remembered for, among other things, trying to surrender to the Russians when he realized that the war was lost. Hitler found out that Horthy through his son was negotiating a surrender to the Russians and had Horthy and his son arrested. On 15 Oct 1944, Horthy told his government ministers that Hungary had signed an armistice with the Soviet Union. "It is clear today that Germany has lost the war... Hungary has accordingly concluded a preliminary armistice with Russia, and will cease all hostilities against her." On that same day, 15 Oct. 1944, after Horthy had announced the armistice in a nationwide radio address, but which most of his troops did not hear, Hitler sent commando Otto Skorzeny to Budapest with instructions to remove Horthy from power. Horthy's son was meeting with Soviet representatives to finalize the surrender when Skorzeny and his troops forced their way into the meeting and kidnapped the younger Horthy at gunpoint. However, he did not kill them. Both Horthys got out after the war was over and the father lived long enough to write these memoirs. -Print ed.

Table of contents

• Title page
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
• PREFACE
• INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER ONE-OUT INTO THE WORLD
• CHAPTER TWO-NEW APPOINTMENTS
• CHAPTER THREE-AIDE-DE-CAMP TO EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH I AT THE COURT OF VIENNA, 1909-1914
• CHAPTER FOUR-ARCHDUKE FRANCIS FERDINAND
• CHAPTER FIVE-NAVAL WARFARE IN THE ADRIATIC. THE CORONATION OF KING CHARLES V
• CHAPTER SIX-THE NAVAL BATTLE OF OTRANTO
• CHAPTER SEVEN-APPOINTMENT AS COMMANDER OF THE FLEET. THE END
• CHAPTER EIGHT-REVOLUTION IN HUNGARY. FROM MICHAEL KÁROLYI TO BÉLA KUN
• CHAPTER NINE-COUNTER-REVOLUTION. I AM APPOINTED MINISTER OF WAR AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF
• CHAPTER TEN-REGENT OF HUNGARY
• CHAPTER ELEVEN-ATTEMPTS AT THE RESTORATION OF KING CHARLES IN 1921
• CHAPTER TWELVE-THE ROAD TO FREEDOM
• CHAPTER THIRTEEN-THE ROME PROTOCOLS AND THE ROME-BERLIN AXIS
• CHAPTER FOURTEEN-TRAVELS AND VISITORS
• CHAPTER FIFTEEN-FRICTION WITH HITLER
• CHAPTER SIXTEEN-THE SECOND WORLD WAR. HUNGARY’S NON-BELLIGERENCE
• CHAPTER SEVENTEEN-HUNGARY ENTERS THE SECOND WORLD WAR
• CHAPTER EIGHTEEN-APPOINTMENT OF A DEPUTY REGENT
• CHAPTER NINETEEN-THE SEARCH FOR THE WAY OUT
• CHAPTER TWENTY-THE OCCUPATION OF HUNGARY
• CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE-SUING FOR ARMISTICE. MY IMPRISONMENT
• CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO-THE ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICANS
• CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE-A LAST GLANCE IN RETROSPECT AND OUTLOOK ON THE FUTURE
• APPENDIX