'I got so much from this country: a career, a family, a new life'

A Conversation with Adam LeBor

The Hungarian Conservative sat down with the British author-journalist, a former war correspondent for The Times and The Independent and a fervent admirer of our capital, to talk about the first English-language, non-fiction account of Budapest throughout the Second World War.

‘I picked a character—for example, Klára Andrássy or my late father-in-law, Róbert Ligeti—and just wrote out their story. Then, I had the key dates. Then, I wrote out the next one. And then I did it date by date: what was happening in spring 1941? What happened in 1942? Therefore, some chapters cover a shorter time—in 1942 and 1943—and the main story is about diplomacy in trying to change sides. But in 1944, after the Germans invaded, there were many, many stories going on and many characters,’ Adam LeBor told Hungarian Conservative.

You can read the full interview here