The fall of Berlin 1945 / Antony Beevor
- Bib ID:
- 321857
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Beevor, Antony, 1946-
- Description:
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- New York : Viking, c2002
- xxxvii, 489 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0670030414
- Summary:
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"The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945. Frenzied by their terrible experiences with Wehrmacht and SS brutality, they wreaked havoc - 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. More than seven million fled westward from the terror of the Red Army. It was the most terrifying example of fire and sword ever known.".
"Antony Beevor, using 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. The Fall of Berlin 1945 is a terrible story of pride, stupidity, fanaticism, revenge and savagery, yet it is also one of endurance, self-sacrifice and survival against all odds."--BOOK JACKET.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 466-475) and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 2002
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