The Battle of Berlin: The Collapse of the 'Thousand-Year' Reich
1945
(Soft Cover)
Product Code: SS7005

Overview
Great Battles of the World;

By Stavropoulos, Vourliotis, Terniotis, Kotoulas, Valmas, and
Zouridis.

By the dawn of 1945, the Western Allies had driven back Hitler's
last, desperate effort in the Ardennes. However, the Allies'
insistence on Germany's unconditional surrender deterred the
Germans from making any concession over ending the war - Hitler
and the Nazi faithful saw their only option to be a fanatical
Wagnerian stand leaving only Germany's ruins to commemorate the
tragedy. Further, it was already clear that another kind of war
was right around the corner. The Soviets had already reached
Budapest and the Oder River; it was obvious who would dominate
Eastern Europe. The only hope for America and Britain to retain
what they could of Central Europe was to take Berlin, but the
'Russian steamroller' forestalled them. Massive Soviet forces
attacked the city in April 1945 - the last act of the
confrontation between the Communists and the National Socialists
and the first act of the Cold War. Illustrated with color and b/w
photographs, color maps, 8 aircraft and 9 armor profiles, and 14
color uniform plates; 128 pages. English text.