New book on the Royal Hungarian Army -with a twist

I just stumbled across this new title by Osprey:
http://www.ospreypublishing.com/store/The-...I_9781846033247

However, the soldiers featured on the cover look to me as Rumanian, not Hungarian! It will be quite embarrassing if the book will be actually published with this cover...

Gen. Dénes

You are correct about the soldiers on the cover looking Romanian.

Checking my books I found the 3 images in Osprey's previous publication "The Romanian army of world war 2" (Men-at-Arms series, No. 246) by Axworthy & Serbanescu.

The soldiers depicted feature in Plates C (No. 3), B (No. 3) & D (No. 1).

Hope this reply comes out OK - it's my first.

Alan in Bradford

Besides the cover depiction, another apparent error to me is the book's description. Following the link provided by Denes, one can read "About this book
The Royal Hungarian Army was Germany’s largest ally on the Eastern Front..."

I can not quote exact figures (my old notebooks are not available to me now) but my recollection is that the RHA support to The Crusade Against Bolshevism was less than the support provided by the Royal Romanian Army.

The only context in which the respective statement is true, is if its author considers the period between Aug. 23, 1944 and the end WW2 only.

Also as I recall, unlike Antonescu, during the conflict Horthy brought back in country many of his troops, consitenlty reducing the effectives engaged in front line operation.


Sorin

The soldiers are romanian indeed. This is an error because they took some types of the book about the romanian army in WW2 (MAA Nr. 246) and put on the cover of the book about the hungarian army. An astonishing error!

However, the author of the plates, Darko Pavlovic is a very good and professional artist. I would like very much to read this book...

Hello everyone,

The correct book cover can be viewed on the Amazon book sellers web site at:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/18...19287382&sr=1-1

Regards,
George

This is quite a common situation to some western people, who are answering very often that the capital of Romania is of course .... Budapest ...

And vice-versa.
BTW, that's logical, isn't it. After all, the names of both cities start with Bu... and end with ...est.

Gen. Dénes

This post has been edited by Dénes on August 21, 2008 06:41 pm

And vice-versa.
BTW, that's logical, isn't it. After all, the names both cities start with Bu... and end with ..est.

Gen. Dénes

You have a strong point here !!

We should get in the equation also Bu .. lgaria. Very often rock bands playing at Bucharest have used the expression: Hello Bulgaria, we love you ...

Nice touch... I like it.

"grecum est non legitur" -sounds familiar, right ?

Al