John Lukacs has passed away at age 95

Here is a Washington Post obituary.  Yes, he did write a bestselling tribute to Churchill, but more importantly he was one of the last representatives of a particular central European notion of history and culture.  I much prefer the Times of Israel obituary.  Here is Wikipedia.  The Last European War and Budapest 1900: A Historical Portrait of a City and its Culture are two of my favorite books by him.