Prof. NORMAN STONE (Glasgow, 1941 – Budapest, 2019) was a British historian, former student then lecturer at the University of Cambridge, professor of History at the University of Oxford, and was a professor of International Relations at the University of Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey. He was also an advisor and speech writer to the British Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and is the author of many books on 20th-century history, including The Eastern Front 1914–17 (1975), Hitler (1980), Europe Transformed, 1878–1919 (1983), The Other Russia (1990), and The Atlantic and Its Enemies: A Personal History of the Cold War (2010). His last book, Hungary: A Short History, was published at the beginning of 2019.