Table of 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 grace"; waiting for the onslaught; Americans on the Elbe; eve of battle; Zhukov on the Reitwein spur; Seelow and the spree; the Fuhrer'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; Fuhrerdammerung; Reich chancellery and Reichstag; the end of the battle; vae victis!; the man on the white horse.

About the Author

Antony Beevor is the author of Crete: The Battle and the Resistance (Runciman Prize), Stalingrad (Samuel Johnson Prize, Wolfson Prize for History and Hawthornden Prize), Berlin: The Downfall, The Battle for Spain (Premio La Vanguardia), D-Day: The Battle for Normandy (Prix Henry Malherbe and the RUSI Westminster Medal), The Second World War, and Ardennes 1944 (Prix Médicis shortlist). The number one bestselling historian in Britain, Beevor's books have appeared in thirty-two languages and have sold just over seven million copies. A former chairman of the Society of Authors, he has received a number of honorary doctorates. He is also a visiting professor at the University of Kent and an Honorary Fellow of King's College, London. He was knighted in 2017.

Reviews

Antony Beevor's remarkable Stalingrad won the Samuel Johnson prize in 1999, along with a slew of other awards. Berlin; The Downfall 1945 depicts the most terrifying example of fire and sword ever known when Soviet soldiers reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945. It is an unforgettable story of those men, women and children who suffered from a naked exercise of power on a scale that is almost incomprehensible. Accompanied by a major national press campaign and a BBC series that is to air just after publication. Look for this one to do quite as well as its predecessor.