WEIMAR GERMANY: Death of a Democracy
"Sebestyen reminds us once again why he is one of the best historians writing today. He has succeeded triumphantly at that hardest of historians' tasks: defeating the tyranny of hindsight. The Weimar Republic is usually seen solely through the prism of the horrors that followed it, but this book rightly treats it as a fascinating historical period in its own right. Meticulously researched and beautifully written."
Andrew Roberts, author of 'Churchill: Walking with Destiny'
"Victor Sebestyen has achieved that rare thing to do well: a marriage between impeccable scholarship with pacy readability. Weimar Germany is as gripping as a novel and crammed with dramatic details of human action (and inaction)… What canny insight this book offers into the insecurity of our own times.”
Anne Sebba, author of 'The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz'
BUDAPEST: Between East and West
Writer and historian
"Magnificent... a really fine history... full of fascinating insights from an author with this city in his blood. Colourful details and anecdotes make it exciting.... Victor Sebestyen brings the key heroes and monsters in Budapest’s history to life... vivid, engaging and page-turning."
Victoria Hislop
"Victor Sebestyen’s Budapest is a compelling portrait of one of the most important cities in Europe. It is full of sharp insights, elegant writing and vivid characters, a magisterial work spanning 2,000 years from the Romans to the present day."
Andrew Roberts
"This book is a delight. Elegant writing, urbane knowledge, scholarly depth, and a beautifully-sketched cast of warlords, writers and empresses, communists and kings. Not just a superb portrait of Budapest but a history of 2,000 years of central Europe."
Simon Sebag Montefiore
LENIN THE DICTATOR
"A richly readable new biography…enthralling."
The Mail on Sunday: Francis Wheen
"Excellent, original and compelling portrait of Lenin as man and leader."
Simon Sebag Montefiore
REVOLUTION 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire
"A must-have account. Sebestyen's brilliantly written narrative unfolds in brief, gripping episodes."
Newsweek
"Sebestyen's strength is his sharp focus and racy prose... Here is history written like a Greek tragedy... In Revolution 1989 nothing is taken for granted until the last triumphant page."
The Times
TWELVE DAYS: Revolution 1956
"A small masterpiece that should be read and treasured by all who value mankind’s eternal quest for freedom."
New York Post
"A magisterial but totally gripping and fresh account of the noble, violent, and doomed Hungarian revolution."
Simon Sebag Montefiore
1946: The Making of the Modern World
"This is an exceptionally involving and horrifying book."