Thomas L. Sakmyster (born 1943) is an American professor emeritus of history of the University of Cincinnati, known for his studies of early 20th-century Hungary, including the "first full-length scholarly study of Hungary's most controversial figure" of the 20th century and the "most important work on the admiral to date", Miklós Horthy, as well as a meticulously-researched even-handed biography of the Hungarian-Soviet spy J. Peters.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Thomas L. Sakmyster was born in 1943 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. In 1965, he received a BA from Dartmouth. In 1967, he received an MA and in 1971 a doctorate, both in history, from Indiana University. His dissertation was on Hungary and the Coming of the European Crisis, 1937-1938.^[1]

In 1971, Sakmyster began to teach history at the University of Cincinnati.^[1] In 1985, he served as director of graduate studies.^[7] As of 1995, he served as Walter Langsam Professor of European History.^[1] In 2003, he served as acting chair of History.^[8] In 2005, he retired and in 2007 became professor emeritus.^[1]

Sakmyster's works include:

Books:

• Hungary, the Great Powers, and the Danubian Crisis, 1936-1939 (1980)^[9]
• Hungary's Admiral on Horseback: Miklós Horthy, 1918-1944 (1994)^[10]
  • Miklos Horthy: Ungarn 1918-1944 (2006)^[11]
• Red Conspirator: J. Peters and the American Communist Underground (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2007)^[2][12]
• A Communist Odyssey: The Life of József Pogány / John Pepper (Central European University Press, 2012)^[13]

Articles:

• "The Hungarian State to Germany of August, 1948: Some New Evidence on Hungary in Hitler's Pre-Munich Policy" Canadian Slavic Studies (1969)
• "Bethlen István Titkos Iratai, Edited by Miklós Szinai and Laszlo Sziics," Canadian Slavic Studies (1974)^[14]
• "Army Officers and Foreign Policy in Interwar Hungary, 1918-41," Journal of Contemporary History (1975)^[15]
• "From Habsburg Admiral to Hungarian Regent: The Political Metamorphosis of Miklós Horthy 1918–1921," East European Quarterly (1983)^[16]

• Miklós Horthy
• J. Peters
• József Pogány