“LeBor… draws the reader into the maelstrom of war. This book cannot be read dispassionately. The portraits are vivid and alive.”
Gerard DeGroot, The Times of London, Book of the Week and a best book of summer 2025
“The greatest strength of The Last Days of Budapest is its wealth of human details, culled from letters, diaries, oral histories, archival materials and interviews.”
Jonathan Eig, Wall Street Journal
The first non-fiction account of Budapest in the Second World War – a once cosmopolitan capital crushed between Hitler and Stalin
The Last Days of Budapest
Spies, Nazis, Rescuers and Resistance, 1940-1945