Berlin: The Downfall: 1945 by Antony Beevor


Berlin: The Downfall: 1945
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Penguin presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of Berlin by Antony Beevor read by Peter Nobel Berlin The Downfall 1945 is Antony Beevor's brilliant account of the fall of the Third ReichThe 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 destructionHundreds 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 ArmyAntony 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

Berlin: The Downfall: 1945 Reviews

  • Dr. Pol D. Miles-McCann

    So much of the story we have of the horrors of mid century Europe are about the crimes conducted in the name of Hitler. Fair enough, they were unparalleled. But other wise less considered were the horrors experienced by the German people as they realised the crimes

  • robert alan freckleton

    Great story,well written and gave vivid descriptions of the horrors of war and it's terrible cost to humanity plus destruction of cities and countryside. Makes our current covid 19 pandemic pale into insiginificance by comparison. The fear and terror of the soldiers on both

  • Kindle Customer

    Great history book. Anthony Beevor combines a military historians ability to describe how the battles went with a journalists skill at showing the human side of the conflict

  • Dawn

    I found a lot of information I was unaware of. Hard to put down. A good read.

  • Michael Pietsch

    A wonderfully written explanation of the horrors that occurred as Berlin fell

  • John

    Reading through all of Beevor's books at the moment each one is really well put together.