With Our Backs to Berlin: The German Army in Retreat 1945

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Автор: Tony Le Tissier

Название: With Our Backs to Berlin: The German Army in Retreat 1945

Издательство: The History Press

ISBN: 0750926112

Год: 2013

Формат: Epub

Страниц: 224

Размер: 9 Mb

Язык: English

In the final months of the Second World War in 1945, the German Army was in full retreat on both its Western and Eastern Fronts. British and American troops were poised to cross the River Rhine in the west, while in the East the vast Soviet war machine was steam-rolling the soldiers of the Third Reich back towards the capital, Berlin. Even in retreat, the German Army was still a force to be reckoned with and vigorously defended every last bridge, castle, town and village against the massive Russian onslaught. Tony Le Tissier has interviewed a wide range of former German Army and SS soldiers to provide ten vivid first-hand accounts of the fighting retreat that, for one soldier, ended in Hitler's Chancellery building in the ruins of Berlin in April 1945.