List of Illustrations List of Maps Author’s Note Preface Introduction: the Slavs and the Teutons 1 Fritz and Ivan: The Opposing Forces 2 Memel 3 Nemmersdorf 4 The Last Christmas 5 The House of Cards - the Great January Offensive 6 Cherniakhovsky and the Pregel Valley 7 Rokossovsky reaches the Coast 8 Encircled in East Prussia 9 Hannibal - The Baltic Evacuation Begins 10 The Riviera of Hades and the Fall of Pomerania 11 Heiligenbeil - Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea 12 Konigsberg 13 Danzig 14 The Last Command 15 The Long Road Home Notes Bibliography Index
An engrossing history of the last year of the Second World War, charting the battles fought between the Soviet Red Army and the Nazis across German soil.
Prit Buttar studied medicine at Oxford and London before joining the British Army as a doctor. After leaving the army, he has worked as a GP, first near Bristol and now in Abingdon. He is extensively involved in medical politics, both at local and national level, and serves on the GPs' Committee of the British Medical Association. He appears from time to time on local and national TV and radio, speaking on a variety of medical issues. He contributes regularly to the medical press. He has written a novel, but this is his first work of military history.
"A powerful pick... It comes packed with action shots and photos,
first-hand accounts from soldiers on both sides -- most of which
have never appeared in English -- and follows the months between
the arrival of the Red Army in Germany to the collapse of Hitler's
regime. No military collection strong in World War II should be
without this specific, in-depth analysis." --The Midwest Book
Review (December 2010)..".[a] marvelously written and illustrated
new work with excellent maps on a series of battles too long
overlooked ... deserves to be read by any true devotee of World War
II." --Military Advisor (Winter 2010/2011)
A powerful pick... It comes packed with action shots and photos,
first-hand accounts from soldiers on both sides -- most of which
have never appeared in English -- and follows the months between
the arrival of the Red Army in Germany to the collapse of Hitler's
regime. No military collection strong in World War II should be
without this specific, in-depth analysis. The Midwest Book Review
(December 2010) ...[a] marvelously written and illustrated new work
with excellent maps on a series of battles too long overlooked ...
deserves to be read by any true devotee of World War II. Military
Advisor (Winter 2010/2011)"
A powerful pick... It comes packed with action shots and photos,
first-hand accounts from soldiers on both sides -- most of which
have never appeared in English -- and follows the months between
the arrival of the Red Army in Germany to the collapse of Hitler's
regime. No military collection strong in World War II should be
without this specific, in-depth analysis. "The Midwest Book Review
(December 2010)" ...[a] marvelously written and illustrated new
work with excellent maps on a series of battles too long overlooked
... deserves to be read by any true devotee of World War II.
"Military Advisor (Winter 2010/2011)""
"A powerful pick... It comes packed with action shots and photos,
first-hand accounts from soldiers on both sides - most of which
have never appeared in English - and follows the months between the
arrival of the Red Army in Germany to the collapse of Hitler's
regime. No military collection strong in World War II should be
without this specific, in-depth analysis." - The Midwest Book
Review (December 2010)
..".[a] marvelously written and illustrated new work with excellent
maps on a series of battles too long overlooked ... deserves to be
read by any true devotee of World War II." -"Military Advisor
"(Winter 2010/2011)
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