Berlin : the downfall, 1945 / Antony Beevor
2002, First Edition, Eleventh Printing. London ; New York : Viking. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #452967
ISBN: 0670886955
Physical description; xxxvii, 489 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. Contents; Berlin in the new year -- 'House of cards' on the Vistula -- Fire and sword and 'noble fury' -- Great winter offensive -- Charge to the Oder -- East and west -- Clearing the rear areas -- Pomerania and the Oder bridgeheads -- Objective Berlin -- 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 -- Führer's last birthday -- Flight of the golden pheasants -- Bombarded city -- False hopes -- Fighting in the city -- Fighting in the forest -- Betrayal of the will -- Führerdämmerung -- Reich chancellery and Reichstag -- End of the battle -- Vae victis! -- Man on the white horse. Subjects; Berlin, Battle of, Berlin, Germany, 1945. World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Germany -- Berlin.
Price: €12.95