Budapest 1900: A Historical Portrait of a City and Its Culture
by John Lukacs

cover image for My family is from the Budapest area and left around the time of World War I. I was in a bookstore one afternoon and stumbled across this book which I thought might provide an interesting glimpse of what my great great grandfather’s life was like. If you’re interested in Budapest, this is only English language book I know of that covers this time period. And it’s remarkably good, you can almost smell the market streets and hear the murmurs from the cafe bars…

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