The Last Days of Budapest: The Destruction of Europe's Most Cosmopolitan Capital in World War II

"The Last Days of Budapest is a masterpiece. Immaculately researched, it is packed with large-than-life characters and...
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The Last Days of Budapest: The Destruction of Europe's Most Cosmopolitan Capital in World War II by LeBor, Adam

The Last Days of Budapest: The Destruction of Europe's Most Cosmopolitan Capital in World War II

$35.00

The Last Days of Budapest: The Destruction of Europe's Most Cosmopolitan Capital in World War II

$35.00
Author: Adam LeBor
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
"The Last Days of Budapest is a masterpiece. Immaculately researched, it is packed with large-than-life characters and revelations about the unknown espionage history of the Second World War.... This is history as it should be written: utterly engrossing." -Malcolm Brabant, author of the New York Times bestseller The Daughter of Auschwitz

Budapest, autumn 1943.

After four years of war, Hungary was firmly allied with Nazi Germany. Budapest swirled with intrigue and betrayal, home to spies and agents of every kind. But the city remained an oasis in the midst of conflict where Allied POWs and Polish and Jewish refugees found sanctuary.

All that came to an end in March 1944 when the Nazis invaded. By the summer Allied bombers were pounding Budapest's grand boulevards and historic squares. By late December the city was surrounded and under siege from the advancing Red Army. Tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians died in the savage fighting as Budapest collapsed into anarchy. Hungarian death squads roamed the streets as the city's Jews were forced into ghettos or were shot into the Danube. Russian artillery hammered the city into smoking rubble as starving residents struggled to survive the winter.

Using newly uncovered diaries, documents, archival material and interviews with the last survivors, Adam LeBor has brilliantly recreated life and death in wartime Budapest.



Author: Adam LeBor
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 04/22/2025
Pages: 512
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.80d
ISBN: 9781541700581


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2025
Booklist 04/29/2025

About the Author

Adam LeBor is a veteran former foreign correspondent who lived in Budapest for many years, reporting on Hungary and Central Europe for newspapers including the Times (London), the Independent and the Economist. The author of seven novels and nine non-fiction books, he also writes for the Financial Times, the Times and the Critic. He divides his time between London and Budapest.


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