The Siege and Assault of Budapest 1944-1945

At the end of 1944 the Red Army was advancing westwards with a clear objective: Budapest. The siege of this city lasted more than 100 days and there were violent clashes between German and Hungarian troops on the one hand and Soviet and Romanian troops on the other.

The Soviet advance on Budapest and its ferocious siege has been compared for its harshness and destruction to that of Stalingrad by various historians.

In The Siege and Assault of Budapest 1944–1945 we will know the German attempts to relieve the city, sending elite units equipped with the new Königstiger tanks and also Operation Panzerfaust, led by the commander of German SS special forces Otto Skorzeny, whose objective was to maintain the kingdom of Hungary as an ally of the Axis Forces, are the set of fundamental episodes compiled in the pages of this book.

Adolf Hitler, who considered it vitally important to keep Budapest as the starting point for a further advance and, at the same time, to keep in his possession the fundamental Hungarian oil wells, ordered his army to resist joined by the units of the Hungarian Army, ready to defend the capital of their nation at all costs against Soviet and Romanian armies.

The battle was very hard; we will know in a didactic way how it was that it is reflected in the shocking story and the explicit images of those days that we offer the reader in this new work.