TY - BOOK AU - Sebestyen,Victor TI - Budapest: portrait of a city between East and West SN - 9780593317563 PY - 2023///] CY - New York PB - Pantheon Books KW - Budapest (Hungary) KW - History N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-392) and index; 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 N2 - "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"-- ER -