Victor Sebestyen

Budapest has always been an important place. Almost at the centre of Europe, it is at the crossroads of geographical regions and civilisations, at the intersection of ancient trade routes. Mountains that gradually slope into gentle hills converge on a great river, the Danube, and the regions of Buda and Pest sprang up on either side. Throughout history, the centre...

'A fresh, powerful portrait of Lenin' Anne Applebaum, author of Red Famine 'Richly readable ... An enthralling but appalling story' Francis Wheen, author of Karl Marx The cold, one-dimensional figure of Lenin the political fanatic is only a partial truth. Drawing on extensive material that has only recently become available, Sebestyen's gripping biography casts an intriguing new light on the...

In the years after the First World War, Berlin was —as Vladimir Nabokov described it—a place 'of dangerous glamour and worldliness, of tawdry cynicism, where art and riot flourished side by side.' The Weimar Republic was Germany's postwar experiment with democracy, and a time of unprecedented cultural, intellectual, and artistic freedom. Berlin was at the cutting edge of quantum physics...