Victor Sebestyen is the best kind of journalist-historian - he knows how to get the stories on the ground, from the archives, and he writes with pace. All these attributes he demonstrated with TWELVE DAYS (his account of the Hungarian uprising).

• Moscow, December 25, 1991: The Last Day Of The Soviet Union
• The Berlin Wall: 13 August 1961 - 9 November 1989
• The Rise and Fall of Communism
• Twelve Days: Revolution 1956. How the Hungarians Tried to Topple Their Soviet Masters
• Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56