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6 INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION Recent events in Hungary have been momentous, but its history has ever been chequered: this 1849 print shows peasants in battle array during the War of Independence Budapest, the capital of Hungary, lies at the very heart of Europe, Buda on the left, or west, bank...