Adam LeBor's The Last Days Of Budapest is an Economist Best Book of 2025

We are pleased to see Adam Lebor's The Last Days Of Budapest is on the Economist's Best Books of 2025 list!

The Last Days Of Budapest was published by Head of Zeus in January 2025.

Told through the lives of a cast of vivid, gripping characters, including glamorous aristocrats, spies, smugglers and SS Officers, a rebellious teenage Jewish schoolboy, Hungary's most popular actress and her spy chief lover, a Jewish businesswoman who negotiated with Adolf Eichmann, a Christian doctor hiding her Jewish neighbours and a teenage Hungarian soldier, the story of how Budapest slowly dies as the war destroys the city is utterly compelling.

Read the full list here.