The book achieved both critical Soviet soldiers hoist the red flag over the Reichstag in May 1945 It was published by Viking Press in 2002, then later by Penguin Books in 2003. The grramazon description is a naff affair, I shall find proper information on a better site: Berlin: The Downfall 1945 (aka The Fall of Berlin 1945 in the US) is a narrative history by Antony Beevor of the Battle of Berlin during World War II. Soviet soldiers hoist the red flag over the Reichstag in May 1945.
Over seven million fled westwards from the terror of the Red Army.Īntony 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, fanaticism, revenge and savagery, but also one of astonishing endurance, self-sacrifice and survival against all odds.more 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. 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. Political instructors rammed home the message of Wehrmacht and SS brutality. Hundreds of thousands of women an The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945.
The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945.
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