Victor Sebestyen

Victor Sebestyen is the acclaimed author of Twelve Days, Revolution 1989, 1946, Lenin the Dictator and Budapest. Sebestyen was born in Budapest and was a child when his family left Hungary as refugees. As a journalist, he has worked for numerous British newspapers, including the Daily Mail, The Times and the Evening Standard. He reported widely from Eastern Europe when Communism collapsed and the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 and covered the wars in former Yugoslavia and the breakup of the Soviet Union. At the Evening Standard he was foreign editor, media editor and chief leader writer. He was an associate editor of Newsweek.