Berlin the downfall 1945

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Sinopse

The 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 destruction. 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. Over seven million fled westwards from the terror of the Red Army. Antony 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, fanatacism, revenge and savagery, but also one of astonishing endurance, self-sacrifice and survival against all odds.Berlin is the second book in the acclaimed World War II trilogy by Antony Beevor. The first book in the trilogy is Stalingrad and the last, Paris after the Liberation.

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Autor: Antony Beevor

Autor

ANTONY BEEVOR

Antony Beevor nasceu em Winchester (Inglaterra), em 1946. Estudou em Winchester e na Academia Militar de Sandhurst, é discípulo do mais respeitado historiador britânico sobre a Segunda Guerra Mundial, John Keegan. Tornou-se oficial regular do 11º Regimento de Hussardos e deixou o exército depois de cinco anos para se tornar escritor. Publicou romances e livros de não-ficção, entre os quais Berlim 1945, Stalingrado (vencedor dos prêmios Samuel Johnson de Não-Ficção, Wolfson de História e o Hawthornden), A Batalha pela Espanha, Creta e A Segunda Guerra Mundial.