The Making of a New Europe: R.W. Seton-Watson and the Last Years of Austria-Hungary

by Hugh Seton-Watson

Genres: History

458 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1981

About the author

A leading expert on the modern history of Eastern Europe, Hugh Seton-Watson was professor emeritus of Russian history at the University of London. He was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, and after his graduation in 1938 he joined the British legations in Rumania and Yugoslavia in 1940. The following year he was posted a special forces headquarters in the Middle East, serving there until 1944. After the war he returned to Oxford as a fellow in politics and remained there until his appointment at the University of London, where he taught from 1951 until his retirement in 1983.