John Lukacs, a Hungarian-born historian, has died at age 95.
John Lukacs, a Hungarian-born American historian, is pictured in Mantova, Italy, in 2006.
Lukacs completed more than 30 books, on diverse subjects including his native country and 20th century American history, as well as the meaning of history itself. His books include"Five Days in London," the memoir"Confessions of an Original Sinner," and"Historical Consciousness," in which he contended that the best way to study any subject, whether science or politics, was through its history.
Hitler and Stalin were Lukacs' prime villains, Churchill his hero. Lukacs wrote several short works on Churchill's leadership during World War II, focusing on his defiant"blood, toil, tears and sweat" speech as the Nazis were threatening England in May 1940. Lukacs wrote that the speech was at first not well received and that instead of having a unified country behind him, Churchill had to fight members of his own Cabinet who wanted to make peace with the Nazis.
"The situation was totally different," he told the Philadelphia Inquirer at the time."As a matter of fact, it was much worse in England."
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