Whilst still a long wait for its release, we thought of putting it up to drum up the interest especially to those keen on late WWII campaigns fought in Europe.

Fortress Budapest. Authored by Kamen Nevenkin, it will be available as a hardcover two-volume edition. With over a thousand pages, it will feature a wide range of illustrations, map sketches, and photographs, some of which have not been previously published.

From the publisher: Bulgarian researcher Kamen Nevenkin’s Fortress Budapest covers the military history of Operation Budapest. By studying and analyzing massive amounts of important and/or intriguing details, and utilizing an unprecedented amount of archival sources and materials – most of which previously unaccessible – the author provides an in-depth coverage of the 108-day operation. Within that broader framework, the author focuses primarily on the siege of Budapest, that lasted more than 50 days, on the war that raged within the boudaries of the Hungarian capital. The reader will find all the relevant details about the strength, organization and combat value of the opposing forces. One can be a witness to the ongoing combat events in each successive stage of the siege most closely on a daily basis, and sometimes even on an hourly basis. Individual chapters deal with the defensive system of the town that had been turned into a fortress, the combat actions fought on the respective areas of Pest, Buda and Margit Island, the sorties flown by the Soviet air units against Budapest, the air-supply efforts to support the besieged troops, and of course the breakout attempt.

Release Date: April 2020