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Campaign: Fortress BudapestThroughout the autumn of 1944, the Axis forces in the Carpathian Basin were fighting for their very existence. Campaign: Fortress Budapest will inspire and guide you through the entirety of this particular conflict and on to many more victories with your Bolt Action forces! What is this book? The Siege of Budapest, the Soviet invasion of Hungary that led up to it, and the desperate German offensives to relieve the city covered kilometres of frontline;
Throughout the autumn of 1944, the Axis forces in the Carpathian Basin were fighting for their very existence. Campaign: Fortress Budapest will inspire and guide you through the entirety of this particular conflict and on to many more victories with your Bolt Action forces!
What is this book?
The Siege of Budapest, the Soviet invasion of Hungary that led up to it, and the desperate German offensives to relieve the city covered kilometres of frontline; these battles lasted eight months and involved hundreds of thousands of combatants. Within the 168 pages of this impressive resource, the authors have squeezed in a variety of very different scenarios for players.
Fortress Budapest is the latest Campaign expansion to Bolt Action Second edition. Whilst there is historical detail within the narrative, this volume is not a history book – it is first and foremost an impressive wargaming supplement. The intention of the author Bryan Cook and the team who put this book together was to provide a good mixture of scenarios, new units, and new rules whilst still giving some historical background for context. Some previously published rules and units have also been reprinted – this is to save players the expense of buying additional books for content which is vital to this volume, but might form only a small part of other books.
What's in this book:
Packed with history Fortress Budapest contains complete scenarios, additional special rules, army lists, new units and of course the all-important complete theatre selectors.
- Fighting for Transylvania
- Scenario 1: Hold the Ojtózi Pass
- The Battle of Tordá
- The Red Army Arrives
- Direct Assault on Tordá
- Scenario 2: Into the Valley of Death
- Counter-attack at Debrecen
- Operation Debrecen
- Coup in Budapest
- Scenario 3: Operation Debrecen
- A Phone Call With Stalin
- Encirclement
- Operation Budapest
- Fortress Kecskemét
- Scenario 4: Flak-Regiment 133
- Breakout Under Moonlight
- Chaotic Retreat
- The Attila Line
- Scenario 5: The Attila Line
- Breakthrough at Pestszentimre
- Scenario 6: Counter-attack at Pestszentimre
- Enter the 3rd Ukrainian Front
- Festung Budapest
- SS IX Mountain Corps
- German Strength in Budapest
- Scenario 7: The Back Door Left Open
- The First Assault on Pest
- Scenario 8: Street Fighting in Pest
- Block by Block
- Scenario 9: Withdrawal Across the Danube
- Relief Attempts
- Scenario 10: Operation Konrad I
- Operation Konrad II
- Scenario 11: Operation Konrad III
- Last Stand in Buda
- Városmajor Grange
- Scenario 12: Farkasréti Cemetery
- Scenario 13: The Buda Hills
- Scenario 14: Supply Drop
- The End is Nigh
- Scenario 15: The Last Redoubt
- The Breakout Attempt
- Sacrificed for the Reich
- Operation Spring Awakening
- Hitler’s Last Gamble
- Scenario 16: Death Ride of the Panzers
- New Units
- Include; German, Hungarian, Soviet and Romanian
New Theatre Selectors:
- For Germany
- Panzer Kampfgruppe Armoured Platoon
- 1944–45 Panzergrenadier Reinforced Platoon
- Panzer Reconnaissance Reinforced Platoon
- Heavy Anti-aircraft battery Reinforced Platoon
- IV SS Panzer Corps Armoured Platoon
- 6th SS Panzer Army Armoured Platoon
- For Hungary
- Carpathian Mountains Border Guards Reinforced Platoon
- Assault Artillery Battery Armoured Platoon
- Hungarian Armoured Field Division Armoured platoon
- For Hungary & Germany
- Budapest Pocket Defenders Reinforced Platoon
- For Soviet Union
- Guards Mechanised Brigade Armoured Platoon
- Forward Detachment Reconnaissance Party Reinforced Platoon
- Urban Assault Group Reinforced Platoon
- Soviet Anti-tank Strongpoint Reinforced Platoon
- For Romania
- 1944 Allied Romanian Infantry Division Reinforced Pl
Additional Special Rules:
- City Fighting
- Buildings
- Sewer Movement
- Command and Control in a City Fight
- City Siege Assets
- Minefields
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★★★★★ 1
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Format: Hardcover
No author or publisher provided in the book. Reads, appears, and presents it self like an AI generated high High School project. Most importantly I returned it.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2024
★★★★★ 5
Bear Witness
Format: Kindle
This is an excellent read for anyone ignorant of the history of Slavery in the United States. It is this account that jolted the abolitionist movement that would later lead to the emancipation proclamation. It is a quick and powerful read of our shameful pass. But it is necessary for us to learn our pass to move forward.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Skip the introductions and go right to the narrative
Let's face it. Most of the history I read is written by white people. Some things need to be read in the "first person" and this is one of them. Not only is it a landmark book (not just for it's time but for all time), it is still easy to read, believable, compassionate to all (including slave owners) and completely gripping. It is not too brutally descriptive to be disturbing to any older kids or teens I know, and it is a patient, instructive and compelling story that I believe could still be a powerful, memorable and life changing read for anyone.
Personal Note:
I went to Maryland public schools in the 70's and early 80's. This was not on my required reading list. I wish it had been, but then maybe I would have hated it. The story of Frederick Douglas is to me overwhelming. The indictment of Southern Christianity is also particularly grievous. I do feel like I'm beginning to get a sense of the longtime North - South cultural divide as a matter of regional . . . religious . . . and economic ... pride.
Misc Notes:
1. Brer Rabbit - in the intro to my book - Robert O'Meally mentions Brer Rabbit and Disney's now banned (and well censored) in the USA "Song Of The South" movie (think "Zip-A-De-Do-Da") - I don't have any wisdom on this but Brer Rabbit is a vaguely forbidden character in our country, as is Bugs Bunny, who the writer indentifies as a modern day Brer Rabbit. I always liked Bugs Bunny, but you don't see these cartoons around. I have an older African American friend who asked me if I could find a copy of "Song of the South" which he had fond memories of watching in the movie theater as a kid. Well I couldn't . . .
2. In my appendix, there is mention of pro slavery arguements of the 1840's. One is to the effect of "Slavery itself doesn't hurt slaves . . . its the abuse of slavery by slaveholders that hurts slaves." Hmmm, that sounds familiar . . .
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Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2013
★★★★★ 5
An essential American autobiography
As the title implies, this short work is the narrative of Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave. He wrote it by himself, a significant fact in that his prose is so eloquent and his pathos so powerful that it seems impossible for a former slave to have composed it. In this short autobiography, Douglass recounts his life as a slave, and details some of the horrors and atrocities perpetuated on slaves by their fiendish overseers, most of whom Douglass portrays as downright evil. More than just a narrative of his life, Douglass also gives an account of how the desire to be free grew and began to burn within his bosom, and how he grew to hate that horrible institution. Above all, this is a story of a slave learning that he is, in fact, a human being.
The significance of this book cannot be overestimated. In it, Douglass effectively dispels a number of popular myths about slaves and slaveholders, and forever changes the way the reader (especially one who lived while slavery still existed) looks at slavery. The theme of this book is very simple: slavery is wrong. It is evil, it is cruel, and, despite what many people thought at the time, the slaves know how cruel it is. Douglass cites several examples of the horrible treatment slaves received, one of them being separation of families. "It is a common custom...to part children from their mothers at a very early age" So it was with Douglass and his own mother.
Douglass writes in a very eloquent style, and this contributes to the power of this work. Many people who thought blacks were inferior in intelligence were shown to be sadly mistaken with the coming of Frederick Douglass, a man both educated and refined. It may be said that the book is not entirely fair, for it is decidedly anti-slavery, but it is undoubtedly true for most cases nonetheless. Most of the overseers in Douglass's narrative are demonic and sadistic, but when a good overseer comes along (such as Freeland), he is fair in his treatment of him.
One can imagine the fuel this book gave to the abolitionist fire, and it is not difficult to see why Douglass had such an impact on both North and South. This is, in my opinion, a definitive work, in that it shows the horrible institution of slavery in all its barbaric nature, and does it from a firsthand point of view, that of a former slave. This book was a tremendous contribution, both for the light it shed on slavery in general, and for proving that blacks were not intellectually inferior by nature, but instead were "transformed into...brute[s]" at the hands of their overseers.
This is a great book, essential for anyone wanting to study the Civil War era or wanting to gain a firmer understanding of slavery.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2003
★★★★★ 4
I always feel comfortable and at ease when I go...
Format: Paperback
Good purchase
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Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2026
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