The Diary Review

‘My heart was beating like some young student’s before the big exam. Was I going to be able to step out onto this land that I have been stri...

‘For some time past I have been occupied with a work of infinite grandeur. At the moment I do not know whether I shall carry it through. It ...

‘This morning we visited Daddy’s grave. How sad that we had to become acquainted with the cemetery so early in life.’ This is from the diary...

One hundred years ago, an ex-soldier and ex-war correspondent Charles à Court Repington, found himself in Budapest, admiring the Danube and ...

Maurice, Count de Benyovszky, was born 270 years ago today. A gloriously romantic figure, a nobleman who fought for different countries acro...

The Wall Street Journal has just published a series of articles about Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat working in Budapest who saved ...