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Budapest : portrait of a city between East and West / Victor Sebestyen.

by Sebestyen, Victor, 1956- author.

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New York : Pantheon Books, [2022]

Budapest (Hungary) -- History.

9780593317563 (hardcover) :

0593317564 hardcover

418 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm

First American edition.

Introduction -- Prologue -- 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 -- Café culture -- The Hungarian pogroms -- Illiberal democracy -- My country right or wrong -- 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.

"From the critically acclaimed historian Victor Sebestyen, the enthralling account of historical and cultural events that define Budapest, a unique city on the fault line between East and West in the heart of Europe. Including an eight-page insert of photographs, this book is a glorious homage to an extraordinary city"--

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