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Book

Budapest : portrait of a city between East and West

Call Number

  • 943.912 S4436 (CEN)

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Edition

First American edition.

Publication Information

New York : Pantheon Books, [2022]

Physical Description

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

Summary

"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"--

Contents

  • 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.

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