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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ungváry, Krisztián.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Budapest ostroma. English

Language:

English

Hungarian

Subjects (All):

Budapest (Hungary)--History--Siege, 1945.

Budapest (Hungary).

Hungary--Budapest.

Genre:

History.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxvii, 475 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2005]

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."--Jacket.

Contents:

Prelude

The encirclement

The siege, 26 December 1944-11 February 1945

Relief attempts

The break-out

The siege and the population.

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-455) and index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0300104685

9780300104684

9780300119855

0300119852

OCLC:

55886363

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