The Last Days of Budapest: Spies, Nazis, Rescuers and Resistance, 1940–1945 by Adam LeBor #joyce

The Last Days of Budapest: Spies, Nazis, Rescuers and Resistance, 1940–1945 by Adam LeBor #joyceBudapest, autumn 1943. Four years into the war, Hungary is allied with Nazi Germany and the Hungarian capital is the Casablanca of central Europe. The city swirls with intrigue and betrayal, home to spies and agents of every kind. But Budapest remains at peace, an oasis in the midst of war where Allied POWs, and Polish and Jewish refugees find sanctuary. The riverside cafes are crowded and the citys famed cultural life still thrives. All that comes to

but it did lure him back

A nationwide manhunt is launched for the tenant of the ground-floor flat

without anger or jealousy as motivators

Never has ancient misogyny been presented with so much wit and style' - historian Amanda Foreman

the impact of the First World War and much more in this introduction to Expressionism

Can he find a place for himself on the far edge of the New World

How do you claim hope

young housemaid Jura has recently fled to the capital

he was writing stories of his own

Penguin ClassicsISBN: 9780241678947Extent: 208 pages

she begins to open up to him

and provides clues about our future