Berlin : the downfall, 1945 / Antony Beevor by Beevor, Antony (1946-) - 2002

London ; New York : Viking, 2002. Seventh Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.. Physical description; xxxvii, 489 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. Notes; Black clothbound hardback. Gold Lettering on spine, front and back endpapers with image of Berlin. Dust jacket with front cover photograph of a red army soldier in street fighting for Berlin (Ullstein Novosti, Berlin). Back cover shows a photograph of a girl saying goodbye to a conscript, 1945 (BKP Berlin). Back jacket flap has a portrait of the author. 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 -- Amercans 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. Summary; Berlin tells the story of those men, women and children caught up in the crescendo of the Third Reich's final defeat, who suffered to the end from folly, cruelty and the naked exercise of power on a scale that is almost incomprehensible. Subjects; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945) — Studies. King (David) Collection. Germany. Heer — Studies. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Armiya — Studies. Berlin, Battle of (Germany : 1945). Berlin, Battle of, Berlin, Germany, 1945. Tweede Wereldoorlog. Veldslagen. Weltkrieg (1939-1945). Kriegsende. Kriegsende. Weltkrieg (1939-1945). World War, (1939-1945) — Campaigns — Germany. Berlin, Battle of, 1945. Berlin, Battle of — Germany — Berlin — 1945. Berlin — History — World War, (1939-1945). World War, (1939-1945) — Germany. World War — (1939-1945). Berlin, Battle of, Berlin, Germany, 1945. Germany — Berlin. Berlin (Germany) — History — (1918-1945). Berlin (Germany) — History. Berlin — History. Germany — History — (1933-1945). military operations. campaigns, military. warfare (conventional). battles. social history. civilians and war. local history. political history. Theatre of operations Eastern Front (1914-1918), (1941-1945). Russia. Germany, pre 1945. Second World War. civilians affected by land fighting. civilian life in occupied countries. occupation. politics. foreign policy. foreign relations. Battle of Germany. World War II. European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland) ; Military history ; Battles & campaigns ; World history: Second World War ; Battles & campaigns. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated.