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

"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"--