{"product_id":"the-last-days-of-budapest-the-destruction-of-europes-most-cosmopolitan-capital-in-world-war-ii-9781541700581","title":"The Last Days of Budapest: The Destruction of Europe's Most Cosmopolitan Capital in World War II","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Last Days of Budapes\u003c\/i\u003et 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.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e-Malcolm Brabant, author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003ci\u003eThe Daughter of Auschwitz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Budapest, autumn 1943. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Using newly uncovered diaries, documents, archival material and interviews with the last survivors, Adam LeBor has brilliantly recreated life and death in wartime Budapest. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adam LeBor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e PublicAffairs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/22\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 512\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.6lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781541700581","brand":"PublicAffairs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43881504080009,"sku":"9781541700581","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_d63a8676-3de7-42a8-a9b0-29ec5b151ae1.jpg?v=1744695745","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-last-days-of-budapest-the-destruction-of-europes-most-cosmopolitan-capital-in-world-war-ii-9781541700581","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}