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The Fall of Berlin 1945

The Fall of Berlin 1945 - Paperback

by Antony Beevor
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Availability:In StockContributor:Antony BeevorAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2003-04-29Pages:576
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780142002803ISBN-10:142002801UPC:9780142002803Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Wars & Conflicts, Europe, ModernBook Topic:World War II, Germany, 20th CenturySize:8.50 x 5.72 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SC223ZK5PC
"A tale drenched in drama and blood, heroism and cowardice, loyalty and betrayal."--Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post

The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Third Reich in January 1945. Frenzied by their terrible experiences with Wehrmacht and SS brutality, they wreaked havoc--tanks crushing refugee columns, mass rape, pillage, and unimaginable destruction. Hundreds of thousands of women and children froze to death or were massacred; more than seven million fled westward from the fury of the Red Army. It was the most terrifying example of fire and sword ever known.

Antony Beevor, renowned author of D-Day and The Battle of Arnhem, has reconstructed the experiences of those millions caught up in the nightmare of the Third Reich's final collapse. The Fall of Berlin 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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780142002803ISBN-10:142002801UPC:9780142002803Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Wars & Conflicts, Europe, ModernBook Topic:World War II, Germany, 20th CenturySize:8.50 x 5.72 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SC223ZK5PC
Antony Beevor was educated at Winchester and Sandhurst. A regular officer in the 11th Hussars, he served in Germany and England. He has published several novels, and his works of nonfiction include The Spanish Civil War; Crete: The Battle and the Resistance, which won the 1993 Runciman Award; Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942--1943; and Berlin: The Downfall, 1945. With his wife, Artemis Cooper, he wrote Paris: After the Liberation: 1944--1949. His book Stalingrad was awarded the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, the Wolfson History Prize, and the Hawthornden Prize in 1999.
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

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