Cold War to Warm Cooperation by Endre Szentkirályi / The Military Service of Cleveland Hungarians / Egy Amerikai város magyar katonái 1950-2014 / Zrínyi kiadó / Hardcover

Hardcover 2014

ISBN: 9789633276273  /  978-9633276273

ISBN-10: 9633276276

PAGES: 290

PUBLISHER: Zrínyi kiadó

LANGUAGE: English - Angol

English Description

The book is divided into three parts. Part One is in English and includes an introductory chapter on the method used for the data collection as well as an analysis of the sources of motivation for Hungarian-Americans join the military. There are four additional chapters in this part grouped by the kind of military service of the interviewees, the historical period and the wars in which they served. The chapter about the years 1950-1964 covers the activities of those who served in the Korean War as well as at various bases worldwide. The chapter on 1965-1975 is about those who served in the Vietnam War; whereas those who volunteered between the years 1976-1989--as by that time army service in the US became non-obligatory--served at various posts both within the US and around the world. While many of those who served in the first two periods (1950-1964 and 1965-1975) were American born, several other individuals of those periods joined the military to take advantage of the Hodge Act, which allowed refugee
immigrants to earn American citizenship after five years of service in the US military. This entire part ends with a brief chapter on the service of those military personnel who served in the last
fifteen years. All in all, Szentkirályi's book presents interviews with forty officers, including two generals and several colonels, as well as many sets of brothers or family lineages of US army men and women. While only two of the interviewees are female, several men do mention their sisters, daughters or other female relatives who serve/d in the US military.

Hungarian Information

Ez az angol és magyar nyelvű, mintegy 250 képpel illusztrált könyv azoknak a Clevelandben élő amerikai–magyaroknak az elbeszélt történelme, akik az Amerikai Egyesült Államok hadseregében szolgáltak 1950-től napjainkig.
A kötet szerzője, Szentkirályi Endre Clevelandben született és nevelkedett, a debreceni egyetemen doktorált.