Hungary (Eyewitness Travel Guides) Oct 2007

Up to date (Oct 2007) and fills in a real gap on Hungary. Lots on Budapest, of course, but plenty on the rest of the country. 336 pages in all.

Budapest (Eyewitness Travel Guides) Jan 2007

There's not a lot available on Hungary, and most of it concentrates on Budapest.This Eyewitness guide is 272 pages and was revised last year.

On the other hand, if you're only there for a couple of days, this may be a weight luxury.

Lonely Planet Eastern Europe (Eastern Europe, 9th Ed Feb 2007)

This is massive, 998 pages. I used an earlier edition when I toured the Eastern capitals. It covers Albania, Belarus, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Moscow & St Petersburg, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine and Yugoslavia.

Basically aimed at the backpacker, I still found it useful as a overall information back-up in just a single volume.