Bio

András D. Bán was born in 1962 in Hungary, and studied International Relations at Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He was a member of the Research Group for the Study of Hungarian History, and researched the changes in British perception of Hungary during the Interwar period. He wrote on British foreign policy and edited the papers of György Barcza, the Hungarian Minsister in London in 1938-41. In 1995, he carried out research at the Hoover Institutition into American Hungarian Relations in 1938-41. In 1996 he compiled Pax Britannica: The Foreign Office Papers on Plans for a Postbellum East Central Europe. He published numerous papers on the subject of Central Europe. The present book was first published in 1998 in Budapest. András Bán died in 2001 at the age of 38.