| Description |
xxxvii, 489 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Berlin in the New Year -- The 'House of cards' on the Vistula -- Fire and sword and 'noble fury' -- The great winter offensive -- The charge to the Oder -- East and west -- Clearing the rear areas -- Pomerania and the Oder bridgeheads -- Objective Berlin -- The Kamarilla and the general staff -- Preparing the coup de grâce -- Waiting for the onslaught -- Americans on the Elbe -- Eve of battle -- Zhukov on the Reitwein Spur -- Seelow and the Spree -- The Führer's last birthday -- The flight of the golden pheasants -- The bombarded city -- False hopes -- Fighting in the city -- Fighting in the forest -- The betrayal of the will -- Führerdämmerung -- Reich Chancellery and Reichstag -- The end of battle -- Vae Victis! -- The man on the white horse |
| Summary |
"The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945. Political instructors rammed home the message of Wehrmacht and SS brutality. The result was the most terrifying example of fire and sword ever known, with tanks crushing refugee columns under their tracks, mass rape, pillage and destruction. Hundreds of thousands of women and children froze to death or were massacred because Nazi Party chiefs, refusing to face defeat, had forbidden the evacuation of civilians. Over seven million fled westwards from the terror of the Red Army." |
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"Antony Beevor, using often devastating new material from former Soviet files, as well as from German, American, British, French and Swedish archives, has reconstructed the experiences of those millions caught up in the nightmare of the Third Reich's final collapse. Berlin - The Downfall 1945 is a terrible story of pride, stupidity, fanaticism, revenge and savagery, yet it is also one of astonishing endurance, self-sacrifice and survival against all odds."--BOOK JACKET |
| Analysis |
Berlin |
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World War 2 |
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History, 1901-1945 |
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Overseas item |
| Notes |
TV tie-in |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 466-475) and index |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Destruction and pillage -- Germany -- Berlin.
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World War, 1939-1945.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany -- Berlin.
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Berlin, Battle of, Berlin, Germany, 1945.
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| SUBJECT |
Berlin (Germany) -- History -- 1945-1990. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013350
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Berlin (Germany) -- History -- 1918-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013349
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Berlin (Germany) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013347
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| Genre/Form |
Military collection
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History.
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| LC no. |
2002416924 |
| ISBN |
0670886955 |
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