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Article: Attitude Adjustment: How the Hungarians got it; who needs it now.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- June 3, 2002
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The battle of the Lechfeld, which was fought on a rainy Friday in August of a.d. 955, does not figure in any of those books describing the most decisive or most significant battles in world history -- books by historians like Edward Creasy or Victor Davis Hanson. This is a shame, and a bit unfair, but understandable. Lechfeld was decisive -- very decisive -- but it was decisive only for one small and inconsequential nation: Hungary. Even if not of any great moment to the world at large, though, the battle of the Lechfeld deserves a chapter all to itself in the annals of Attitude Adjustment.
The Hungarians had first showed up in Europe some decades earlier as ...