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Title

The siege of Budapest : one hundred days in World War II / Krisztián Ungváry ; translated from the Hungarian by Ladislaus Löb ; with a foreword by John Lukacs.

Author

Ungváry, Krisztián.

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2005], ©2005.

Supplementary Content

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Details

Description

xxvii, 475 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

"Based on formerly inaccessible documents and several hundred interviews with Hungarian and German survivors, this is the first complete and unbiased account of the siege of Budapest. Street by street, day by day, Krisztian Ungvary describes the battle and its horrors in meticulous detail. One hundred and two days passed between the appearance of the first Soviet tank and the final capture of Buda Castle. More than 80,000 Soviet troops and 38,000 German and Hungarian soldiers were killed; about 38,000 Hungarian civilian lives were lost. Civilian casualties were extraordinarily high because the city's 800,000 noncombatant residents were never evacuated. This book represents a massive effort of historical reconstruction, and a major contribution to the history of World War II."--BOOK JACKET.

Uniform Title

Budapest ostroma. English

Alternative Title

Budapest ostroma.

Subjects

• Budapest (Hungary) > History > Siege, 1945
• Dagelijks leven
• Tweede Wereldoorlog
• Belegeringen

Note

• Originally published: London : I.B. Tauris, 2002.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 433-455) and index.

Contents

Foreword / John Lukacs -- 1. Prelude -- 2. The encirclement -- 3. The siege, 26 December 1944-11 February 1945 -- 4. Relief attempts -- 5. The break-out -- 6. The siege and the population -- 7. Epilogue.

ISBN

• 0300104685 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780300104684 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2004015687

OCLC

• ocm55886363
• SCSB-5369846

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries