02423cam a2200349 i 4500 2112509382 TxAuBib 20250710120000.0 240623s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2024950288 9781541700581 HRD 35.00 1541700589 HRD 35.00 (OCoLC)1441716841 TxAuBib rda LeBor, Adam. The last days of Budapest [BOOK] : the destruction of Europe's most cosmopolitan capital in World War II / Adam LeBor. Destruction of Europe's most cosmopolitan capital in World War II. First U.S. edition. New York, NY : Public Affairs, Hachette Book Group, 2025. 501 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. "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.". 20250710. World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Hungary Budapest. Jews Hungary Budapest 20th century. Budapest (Hungary) History Siege, 1945. Budapest (Hungary) Social conditions 20th century. Budapest (Hungary) History 1872-1945.