Helen Fry in Conversation with Adam LeBor

on The Last Days of Budapest: The Destruction of Europe’s Most Cosmopolitan Capital in World War II

In autumn 1943, Budapest, a sanctuary for Allied POWs and refugees, teemed with intrigue as Hungary remained allied with Nazi Germany. This fragile haven crumbled in March 1944 when the Nazis invaded. By summer, Allied bombers struck the city, and by December, it was under siege by the Red Army. Amid savage fighting, death squads targeted Jews, and Russian artillery reduced Budapest to rubble. Drawing on diaries, documents, and survivor interviews, Adam LeBor vividly recounts the harrowing realities of wartime Budapest.

In the Series:
Jan. 5: with Clodagh Finn on The Irish in the Resistance: The Untold Stories of the Ordinary Heroes Who Resisted Hitler
Jan. 12: with Katherine Carter on Churchill’s Citadel
Feb. 9: with Adam LeBor on The Last Days of Budapest: The Destruction of Europe’s Most Cosmopolitan Capital in World War II
Feb. 23 *May 4: with Giles Milton on The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance That Won the War