1. Barbarians over-run Europe; 2. Land settlement or robbery: the question of Hungarian identity; 3. From the Magyar invasion to the Christian kingdom of Arpads; 4. The struggle over continuity and freedom; 5. The Mongolian invasion of 1241 and its consequences; 6. Hungary becomes a great power under foreign rule; 7. The heroic age of the Hundayi against the Turkish menace; 8.

The long road to the catastrophe of Mohacs; 9. This disaster of Turkish domination; 10. Siebenburgen as the stronghold of Hungarian statehood; 11. Gabor Bethlem -- vassal, patriot and European; 12. Zrinyi or Zrinski? Hero of two nations; 13. The rebel leader Thokkoly; 14. The freedom struggle of Ferenc II Rakoczi against the Habsburgs; 15. Myth and historiography; 16.

Hungary in the shadow of the Habsburgs; 17. The struggle against the 'King with the Hat'; 18. Abbot Matinovics and the Jacobin conspiracy 19. Count Istvan 'Szechougi and the 'Age of Reform': Rise and fall of Greater Hungary; 20. Lajos Kossuth and Sandor Pefofi: Symbols of the 1848 Revolution; 21. History, defeat and collapse; 22. Kossuth the hero and 'Judas' Gorgey; 23. Who was Captain Gusev?; 24.

Empress Elisabeth, Andrassy and Bismarck; 25. Victory in Defeat: the 1867 Settlement; 26. The delusion of being without frontiers; 27. The golden age of the Millennium; 28. Hungarian Jews or Jewish Hungarians?; 29. Will Hungary be Hungarian or German?; 30. From the First World War to the 'Dictatorship of Despair'; 31 The Admiral on horseback; 32. Adventurer, counterfeiter, pretender to the throne: Hungary as the troubled man of the Danube Basin 33.

Marching in step with Hitler; 34. Victory in Defeat: 1945 to 1990 35. 'Everyman is a Hungarian': men of genius and culture; 36. Chronology of Hungarian history.