03550cam a2200289 i 4500 909170426 TxAuBib 20230925120000.0 230124s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023003244 9780593317563 HRD 35.00 0593317564 HRD 35.00 TxAuBib rda Sebestyen, Victor, 1956-, author Budapest. Budapest [BOOK] : portrait of a city between East and West / Victor Sebestyen. First American edition. New York : Pantheon Books, [2023] 418 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illlustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Part One: The Magyars -- Aquincum -- The Magyars -- The Khans Invade -- The Raven King -- The Empire Strikes Back -- Budun - A Turkish Town -- Division of the Spoils -- Buda Regained -- Part Two: The Habsburgs -- The Baroque - Gloom and Glory -- Language,Truth and Logic -- The Bridge Builder -- The Great Flood -- The Ides of March -- The Revolutionary War -- A Revenge Tragedy -- Judapest -- Empress Sisi -- The Dual Monarchy - Victory in Defeat -- Budapest Is Born -- Cafae Culture -- The Hungarian Pogroms-- Illiberal Democracy -- My Country Right or Wrong -- Budapest v7.indd vii 05/04/2022 15: -- Part Three: The World at War -- The Beginning of the End -- Lenin's Pupil -- The Admiral Without a Navy -- Marching in Step with Hitler -- Madness Visible -- The Siege of Budapest -- Liberation -- The Iron Curtain Descends -- The House of Terror -- Revolution - Again -- Betrayal in Moscow -- The Merriest Barracks in the Camp -- The Last Rites. Victor Sebestyen has written a sweeping, colorful and immersive history of the capital of Hungary, from the fifth century to the present day: a metropolis whose location in Europe has marked it as a crucial city—at times rich and prosperous, at times enduring unbearable hardship. It has stood at the center of the world-changing historical developments for hundreds of years: the Muslim invasion, The Reformation, both World Wars, fascism, the Holocaust and Communism. Sebestyen mixes colorful details and anecdotes about the people, streets and neighborhoods of his hometown with its rich cultural legacy of literature, music, and architecture. He shows how its people have shifted culturally, politically and emotionally between East and West, through many revolutions, bloody battles, uprisings, and wars of conquest won and lost. He vividly brings to life the many rulers: the ruthless early Magyar, Hun, and Mongol chieftains, celebrated medieval kings and princes, Ottoman Turks, and the Hapsburgs, including the beloved Empress Elisabeth (“Sisi”). We also learn about colorful figures in politics, the arts and the sciences, among them Theodor Herzl, father of modern political Zionism; film pioneer Alexander Korda who held court with the director of Casablanca, Michael Curtiz, young reporter Billy Wilder, and photographer Robert Capa in the glamorous New York Café still going today; Edward Teller, inventor of the H bomb; and Countess Elisabeth Báthory, a cousin of the King of Poland, who became a serial killer, among many others. -Provided by publisher. 20230925. Budapest (Hungary) History.