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Acclaimed for his vivid re-creations of some of the twentieth century's most significant battles, Antony Beevor is one of the best known and respected military historians writing today. He now offers readers a gripping, street-level portrait of the harrowing days of January 1945 in Berlin when the vengeful Red Army and beleaguered Nazi forces clashed for a final time. The result was the most gruesome display of brutality in the war, with tanks crushing refugee columns, mass rapes, pillage, and destruction. Hundreds of thousands of German civilians froze to death or were massacred because Nazi officials had forbidden their evacuation. Hitler, half crazed in his bunker, issued wild orders while Stalin was prepared to risk any number of his men to seize the city before the other Allies could get there. Making full use of newly disclosed material from former Soviet files as well as from German, American, British, French, and Swedish archives, Beevor has reconstructed the different experiences of those millions caught up in the death throes of the Third Reich. The Fall of Berlin 1945 depicts not only the brutality and desperation of a city under siege but also rare moments of extreme
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- Author
- Antony Beevor, David León
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781101175286
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Military History, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.27 / 5 (77 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Berlín : la Caída, 1945 (2010)
- December 1941 : Twelve Days That Began a World War (2011)
- Berlin: The Downfall 1945: the Number One Bestseller (2010)
- Berlín : la Caída, 1945 (2002)
- The fall of Berlin, 1945 (2002)
- The fall of Berlin, 1945 (1998)
- Berlin: The Downfall 1945: the Number One Bestseller (2002)
- The Fall of Berlin, 1945 (2008)
- Berlin : the Downfall, 1945 (2002)
- Berlín. La caída, 1945 (2007)
- Berlin: The Downfall 1945: the Number One Bestseller (2007)
- Berlín: La caída: 1945 (Memoria Crítica) (2002)
- Berlin: The Downfall 1945: the Number One Bestseller (2008)
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