Adam LeBor

Budapest, September 1944. The Hungarian capital lies in the eye of the storm of the closing months of World War Two.

Three months on from D-Day, the Allies are making significant strides through Europe. Meanwhile, for Stalin, Budapest is Moscow's gateway to the West. For Hitler, the city is a crucial bastion where the Russian's advance must be stopped. Squeezed between the two sides with the Red Army advancing, Budapest and its inhabitants will soon pay a terrible price. This is the climax of Adam LeBor's epic history of Budapest during the war, the story of an authoritarian regime allied with Hitler that desperately tried to keep in for as long as possible with the Allies.