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Last Battle, The

By: Pocket Star Books

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Historical Books (Pocket Star)


Product Info

Title
Last Battle, The
Publisher
Category
Author
Cornelius Ryan
Publish Year
1985
Pages
572
Dimensions
4x7x1"
NKG Part #
2148188598
Type
Softcover

Description

The Battle for Berlin was the culminating struggle of World War II in the European theater, the last offensive against Hitler's Third Reich, which devastated one of Europe's historic capitals and marked the final defeat of Nazi Germany. It was also one of the war's bloodiest and most pivotal battles, whose outcome would shape international politics for decades to come.

The Last Battle is Cornelius Ryan's compelling account of this final battle, a story of brutal extremes, of stunning military triumph alongside the stark conditions that the civilians of Berlin experienced in the face of the Allied assault. As always, Ryan delves beneath the military and political forces that were dictating events to explore the more immediate imperatives of survival, where, as the author describes it, "to eat had become more important than to love, to burrow more dignified than to fight, to exist more militarily correct than to win."