ON THE BLOODY ROAD TO BERLIN: Frontline Accounts from North-West Europe and the Eastern Front, 1944-45 :: Victory in the West The defeat of Germany :: World War II :: Time Periods

A collection of interviews with fighting soldiers from the grim last days of the Second World War as they battled towards Berlin from east and west. SHows what the sharp end of war really feels like.

A collection of firsthand accounts, culled from interviews with veterans both Axis and Allied, graphically showing the grim reality of war from the Normandy bocage to the steppes of Soviet Russia. All the interviews were made with soldiers who fought in the dyoing days of the war from June 1944, when casualties were at their highest. Among the interviewees are British infantry, tank troops and paratroopers, US GIs and Red Army men, German foot-soldiers and Waffen SS veterans. Between them they describe the Normandy, Arnhem, Ardennes and Alsatian campaigns as well as thje bitter battles on the Vistula and Oder rivers and the final fall of Vienna and Berlin. This book really reveals what it was like to be at the sharp end of warfare.

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Product Code:	10803
Author:	Duncan Rogers and Sarah Williams
Format:	281pp,b/w illustrations, maps, hb. Published Price £25
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