| Description |
xxxvii, 489 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 466-475) and index. |
| 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 the battle -- Vae victis! -- The man on the white horse. |
| Subject |
Berlin, Battle of, Berlin, Germany, 1945.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany -- Berlin.
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Berlin (Germany) -- History.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Destruction and pillage -- Germany -- Berlin.
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| ISBN |
0670030414 |
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