Berlin

The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945. Political instructors rammed home the message of Wehrmacht and SS brutality. The result was the most terrifying example of fire and sword ever known, with tanks crushing refugee columns under their tracks, mass rape, pillage and destruction. Hundreds of thousands of women and children froze to death or were massacred because Nazi Party chiefs, refusing to face defeat, had forbidden the evacuation of civilians. Over seven million fled westwards from the terror of the Red Army. Antony Beevor reconstructs the experiences of those millions caught up in the nightmare of the Third Reich's final collapse, telling a terrible story of pride, stupidity, fanatacism, revenge and savagery, but also one of astonishing endurance, self-sacrifice and survival against all odds.

ISBN 0141032391   Pages 528 ISBN13 9780141032399 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 383 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd   Published in London Imprint Penguin Books Ltd   Previous ISBN 9780141017471 Format Paperback   Height (mm) 198 Publication date 04 Oct 2007   Width (mm) 129 DEWEY 940.54213155   Spine width (mm) 33 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level General

Fascinating, extraordinary, gripping Jeremy Paxman This brilliant storyteller makes us feel the chaos and the fear as if every drop of blood was our own. It is much more than just a humane account; it is compellingly readable, deeply researched, and beautifully written -- Simon Sebag Montefiore Spectator

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