Adam LeBor

2 months ago | theneweuropean.co.uk | Adam LeBor

When I moved to Budapest in 1991 to work as a foreign correspondent, I quickly noticed two things. The first was the city’s physical scars. Buildings, especially downtown, were still pitted with bullet holes and gouged by shrapnel. Sometimes the bullet holes were grouped around the corner of a particular window. It was easy to imagine a soldier shooting from his eyrie before the fusillade of shots in return.

2 months ago | thejc.com | Adam LeBor

A freezing wind blew in from the icy Danube that last day of December 1944. The men in the uniforms of the Arrow Cross, the Hungarian Nazi movement, waited patiently on Vadasz Street in the heart of downtown Budapest. The sight of their black jackets, trousers and red, white and black armband induced terror among Budapest’s surviving Jews. The Arrow Cross men were gathered outside a building known as the Glass House, a former factory.

2 months ago | thejc.com | Monica Porter |Adam LeBor

Adam LeBor describes wartime Budapest as “the Casablanca of central Europe”, in other words a hotbed of spies, Nazi agents and collaborators, as well as resistance cells and the courageous rescuers of Jews. In his new book, The Last Days of Budapest, he quotes newly revealed diaries and letters from a wide range of participants in that tragic episode of history, and shows what sets Hungary apart from other European nations during the Second World War.

2 months ago | thecritic.co.uk | Adam LeBor

This article is taken from the February 2025 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £10. Amongst aficionados of television spy series, The Bureau, orLe Bureau des Légendes in the original French, is generally agreed to be the gold standard of modern espionage dramas. I reviewed it in 2020, describing it as “utterly absorbing”.

Jan 20, 2025 | msn.com | Adam LeBor

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