Bloody Danube. The decisive battles for the fortress of Budapest, the fall of Romania and Bulgaria, the struggle for Vienna. 1944—1945

With the advance of the Red Army in the summer of 1944, the Danube region became a theater of military operations between German and Soviet troops, in which the nations of Southeast Europe became involved one way or another.
The famous Hungarian historian Péter Gostoni shed light on the political and military events that occurred in the countries of the Danube region from August 1944 until the end of the war. As a result of many years of research, analysis of the battle logs of the Army Group "South", a number of interviews with former commanders and officers of divisions, corps, and armies of the Wehrmacht, as well as political and military figures of the Danube countries, studying a vast amount of memoir literature and documentary sources, the author was able to present a realistic picture of how the fate of not only the German Reich but also the future of Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia was determined in the Danube region.