Martinez, Eduardo Manuel Gil Budapest 1944/45. Tragedia en el Danubio

Volume 57 of the series "Imágenes de Guerra". The Soviet advance on Budapest and its fierce siege is compared by many historians to that of Stalingrad. The German attempts to save the city by sending elite units equipped with the new "Tiger II" tanks and Operation "Panzerfaust" led by the German SS Special Commander Otto Skorzeny, whose aim was to hold the Kingdom of Hungary as an ally of the Axis powers, are the key episodes compiled in the pages of this book.

Adolf Hitler, who considered it vital to hold Budapest as a starting point for a further advance while retaining possession of the vital Hungarian oil wells, ordered his army to make considerable efforts in the hope that the state-of-the-art weapons mass-produced in German factories and the iron will of the German people, constantly fed by propaganda, would be enough to turn the tide of the war. Added to this were the units of the Hungarian army, which were prepared to defend their country's capital at all costs. On the opposite side, the Red Army was preparing to attack the first major city that historically belonged to the enemy - remember that Hungary was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire during the First World War - and it was going to be a tough battle. It looked like it was going to be a very tough battle, and so it was, as the harrowing accounts and haunting images of those days presented to the reader in this work show.