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Blood in the Oder: The Fall of Berlin, 1945

Blood in the Oder: The Fall of Berlin, 1945

Tieke, Wilhelm

Hardcover

German History

Publisher Price: $42.95

PREORDER - Expected ship date October 30, 2027

ISBN10: 1399057669
ISBN13: 9781399057660
Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
Published: Oct 30 2027
Pages: 256
Language: English
This account details the final German stand at the Oder and in Berlin, tracing Soviet advances, civilian flight, and both brave and brutal acts amid desperate, war-worn defenses.

Blood in the Oder, is the second of two volumes exploring the Battle for Berlin and the last months of the Third Reich and the defense of Berlin. It describes in detail the German attempts to stem the Soviet tide at the Oder River and the Russian drive on Germany's capital and Hitler's increasingly frantic and delusional efforts to halt the onslaught of the Red Army. Streams of German soldiers and civilians desperately tried to flee the city before it was surrounded. Their fate if captured by the Russians was too horrible to imagine.

This account mixes the descriptions of the overall military situation with many personal accounts of small unit actions. The desperation, fear and resolve of the soldiers often turned to admirable feats of bravery as well as acts of cowardice and brutality. Hope for a last minute alliance with the Western Powers encouraged the Germans to defend to the limit of human endurance. Ultimately, the dashing of such an alliance and the possibility of capture by the Soviets drove many soldiers and civilians to suicide. The reader has the opportunity here to relive the last days of the Third Reich, as seen through the eyes of the German soldiers and the foreign volunteers who fought before and in Berlin. In one of the ironic incidents of the war, as German soldiers were trying to bypass Berlin to the north, a force of French Waffen-SS troops was trying to enter the city to defend it.

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