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Author | : Tony Le Tissier |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 165 |
Release | : 2021-11-26 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 075099925X |
The last British Governor of Spandau Allied Prison puts the record straight about the final years of Rudolf Hess' life, and his ultimate suicide while in Allied custody.
Author | : Richard J. Evans |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2020-11-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190083050 |
"First published in Great Britain by Allen Lane."--Title page verso
Author | : Tony Le Tissier |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 772 |
Release | : 2014-05-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1783460628 |
A comprehensive look at World War II battle sites in the German capital. On April 16, 1945, the Red Army unleashed a colossal offensive against Berlin with the aim of destroying Hitler’s armies in the East and capturing the German capital before the Western Allies. Over two million soldiers confronted each other in the last act in the war against Nazi Germany. In the course of the next three weeks, relentless Soviet assaults crashed against a desperate, sometimes suicidal defense, and the historic city was turned into a vast battleground. This was the climax of an awful conflict. It represented the death struggle of Hitler’s Third Reich and the supreme achievement of Stalin’s forces, and the story of the battle has fascinated students of warfare ever since. Yet this epic contest can only be understood by visiting the sites of the battle on the ground, on the outskirts of the city, in the suburbs, in the city center where the final dramatic combat took place. And this is the aim of Tony Le Tissier’s definitive guide to the Battle of Berlin.
Author | : Tony Le Tissier |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2010-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1473817412 |
The acclaimed historian’s classic account of the Battle for Berlin offers unprecedented detail and insight into the final days of WWII in Europe. This authoritative study dispels the myths created by Soviet propaganda and describes the Red Army’s final offensive against Nazi Germany in graphic detail. For the Soviets, Berlin—and the Reichstag in particular—was seen as the ultimate prize. Stalin had initially promised Berlin to Marshal Zhukov. But after Zhukov blundered a preliminary battle, Stalin allowed Marshal Koniev, Zhukov's rival, to launch one of his powerful tank armies at the city. The advancing Soviet forces were confronted by a desperate, inadequate German defense. General Weidling's panzer corps was dragged into the city in a futile attempt to prolong the existence of the Third Reich, whose leaders squabbled and schemed in their underground shelters. Ten days later, after the suicides of Hitler and Goebbels, the survivors had to choose between breakout and surrender. Drawing on a wide range of Soviet sources and unprecedented access to German archival and memoir materials, Race for the Reichstag brings into startling focus the bitter fight for the last patch of soil under Wehrmacht control.
Author | : Helmut Altner |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2016-08-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0750979798 |
This book is an explosive memoir of a 17 year old German boy called up to fight in the last weeks of the Second World War. This is a teenager's vivid account of his experiences as a conscript during the final desperate weeks of the Third Reich, during which he experienced training immediately behind the front line east of Berlin, was caught up in the massive Soviet assault on Berlin from the Oder, retreated successfully and then took part in the fight for the western suburb of Spandau, where he became one of the only two survivors of his company of seventeen year-olds.
Author | : Tony Le Tissier |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : 2007-03-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0752495348 |
Operation 'Berlin', the Soviet offensive launched on 16 April, 1945, by Marshals Zhukov and Koniev, isolated the German Ninth Army and tens of thousands of refugees in the Spreewald 'pocket', south-east of Berlin. Stalin ordered its encirclement and destruction and his subordinates, eager to win the race to the Reichstag, pushed General Busse's 9th Army into a tiny area east of the village of Halbe. To escape the Spreewald pocket, the remnants of 9th Army had to pass through Halbe, where barricades constructed by both sides formed formidable obstacles and the converging Soviet forces subjected the area to heavy artillery fire. By the time 9th Army eventually escaped the Soviet pincers, it had suffered 40,000 killed and 60,000 taken prisoner. Teenaged refugees recount their experiences alongside Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS veterans attempting to maintain military discipline amid the chaos and carnage of headlong retreat. While army commanders strive to extricate their decimated units, demoralised soldiers change into civilian clothing and take to the woods. Relating the story day by day, Tony Le Tissier shows the impact of total war upon soldier and civilian alike, illuminating the unfolding of great and terrible events with the recollections of participants.
Author | : Helmut Altner |
Publisher | : Casemate Publishers and Book Distributors |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
"A teenager's vivid and moving account of his experiences as a conscript during the final desperate six weeks of the Third Reich's existence ..."--Jacket.
Author | : Tony Le Tissier |
Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2007-04-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0817315578 |
Abstract: The 94th US Infantry Division was an organization formed late in the Second World War, made up of draft-deferred university students as enlisted men and an officer corps pulled together from various domestic postings. This book presents a study of the fighting between the 94th US Infantry Division and their German counterparts.
Author | : Bob Orkand |
Publisher | : Casemate |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2021-10-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1636240275 |
"Casemate has a long history of publishing high quality military history non-fiction. Lately, they have expanded their range of work to include well written novels using wartime settings." – WWII History MagazineIn Cold War Berlin US Army Major Harry Holbrook is caught in the midst of assassination attempts and has to put his trust in an unknown contact and the reliability of information that may allow him to foil another assassination. Hot on the heels of a dressing-down by the U.S. Commander Berlin, U.S. Army Major Harry Holbrook receives an unexpected luncheon invitation from the Soviet commandant of Spandau Prison, where the last three remaining Nazi war criminals are incarcerated. A contact in East Berlin alerts Holbrook that the Red Army faction will attempt to assassinate West Berlin Mayor Willi Brandt and the U.S. Commander at the opening of the Fifth Annual German-American Volksfest. Holbrook helps foil the plot. Coming to trust his contact, Holbrook knows he should act when he is tipped off that a Mossad terrorist attempts to assassinate two of the three Spandau prisoners upon their release from the prison... Set in the divided city of Berlin in the mid-1960s where recent incidents have brought the world closer to nuclear war than ever before, this debut novel brings a complex tapestry of events to a breathtaking conclusion.
Author | : Norman J. W. Goda |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521867207 |