This account of lays the many myths created by Soviet propaganda to rest and details what exactly happened as the Red Army and the Allies raced to be the first at the Reichstag.
Operation Berlin, the Soviet offensive launched on 16 April 1945, isolated the German Ninth Army and thousands of refugees in the Spreewald pocket, south-east of Berlin. Relating the story day by day, this text shows the impact of total war upon soldier and civilian, illuminating the unfolding of events with the recollections of participants.
In his new book, Tony Le Tissier provides the first detailed account of the Soviet-German conflict east of Berlin, culminating in 1945 with the last major land battle in Europe that proved decisive for the fate of Berlin. When the first Red Army soldier reached the Oder on the 31st of January, everyone at the Soviet Headquarters expected Marshall Zhukov's troops to bring a quick end to the war. However, despite desperate fighting by both sides...
Definitive guide to the 1945 battle for Berlin, describing the principal monuments, cemeteries and associated sites, with walking and driving tours of the battlefield and over 300 maps and illustrations.
Personal accounts by top Red Army commanders of the attack on Berlin in 1945. First publication in English of memoirs long banned in the Soviet Union provide insight into the workings of the Soviet high command and the tensions between the generals.
This text on Berlin charts the Nazi-Communist struggle of the Weimar Republic, the grandeur, both public and architectural, of the Third Reich, and the city's battering by Allied and Soviet forces. "Focus on the Cold War" looks at the partition, and eventual reunion, of East and West Berlin.
Sixty years have elapsed since the cataclysmic demise of Adolf Hitler and his Third Reich. In this book Tony Le Tissier (author of Berlin Then and Now) traces the rise of Hitler, the Nazi Party and its ramifications, together with its deeds and accomplishments, during the twelve years that the Third Reich existed within today's boundaries of the Federal Republics of Germany and Austria. The homes - or sites of them - of the dramatis personnae,...
This is the most comprehensive study to date of the fierce fighting between the 94th US Infantry Division and their German counterparts during the spring of 1945. It sheds new light on the achievements of the outnumbered division in penetrating Germany's Westwall. With verve and detail, Tony Le Tissier narrates the action and illuminates the tribulations and sacrifices of American soldiers who won their laurels at great cost.
In May 1945, as the Red Army crushed the last pockets of German resistance in central Berlin, French soldiers fought back. They were the last surviving members of SS Charlemagne, the Waffen SS division made up of French volunteers. Their story gives an insight into the climax of the Battle for Berlin.
