The last days of Budapest: the destruction of Europe's most cosmopolitan capital in World War II

part 1. The balancing act: The end of empire ; A nation traumatized ; The most seductive city ; Diplomatic dances ; Brothers in sword and glass ; A sackful of trouble ; A surfeit of spies ; The die is cast ; City of spies ; Hungary goes to war

part 2. Magyar maneuvers: A time of dying ; A new spring's hope dies ; A marriage of convenience ; An agreement in Istanbul ; A South African in Budapest

part 3. The last days: Operation Margarethe ; Head of State in absentia ; A wave of arrests ; Warnings ignored ; Mission impossible ; Exodus ; A dirty business ; Summer salvation ; Neutral rescuers ; A time of alibis ; A new year's promise ; A false October dawn ; The gates of Hell ; Death march ; To the ghetto ; Days of hunger and terror ; Siege and slaughter ; Shells rain down ; Fresh depths of savagery ; Pest liberated, Buda fights on.