This is the story of Berlin, the city that became the Nazi's capital and their last ditch. It begins with the 1936 Olympics where Berlin is the showcase for the 1000-year Reich. The fortunes of Berlin are viewed from their heights to their nadir during the battle for Berlin in 1945. There is an overview of Berlin's history as garrison town for the Prussian kings' and its culture. With the approach of war Berlin is at the hub of the Nazi war machine - a vast military and industrial complex. Repression gets worse, culminating in Kristallnacht with attacks on Jews. The troops depart for Poland and the world is at war. Berlin becomes the prime target for Allied bombers, who pour high explosive onto its streets. Memories from survivors tell what it was like below the streets and of the flak towers during the four-year pounding. From the east the vast Russian juggernaut ploughed on, exacting vengeance for the invasion of the USSR. In the final battle at least 300,000 Soviet soldiers and an untold number of German defenders died. The book culminates in a description of the desperate fighting by the remnants of Hitler's armies in their attempt to hold back the "barbarians from the east".

The Fall of Berlin

READ, ANTHONY

RH Canada UK Dist

Written by the authors of "The Fall of Berlin", this book tells the story of Berlin both through political events and through a vast range of extraordinary personalities: politicians, soldiers and businessmen, artists, writers and performers, and the often bizarre Hohenzollern princes who ruled the city before 1918. Above all, they tell the story of the "little people" - wave after wave of immigrants transformed into that unique character, the Berliner.

Berlin: The biography of a city

Hutchinson

“We are running a race with Bolshevism  and the                  world is on  fire.”—President Woodrow Wilson, 1919While the Western leaders were hammering out a  peace treaty in Paris to end the Great War, a  new war had already begun. Bolshevism—the creed  of the Russian Revolution—had burst on the scene in 1917 and seared itself into the world’s  consciousness even faster than al-Qaeda would  some eighty years later. The Allied powers tried to destroy it at its source by intervening,  controversially and unsuccessfully, in the civil war in Russia. Elsewhere there were bloody  revolutions and bloodier counterrevolutions in  Germany, Hungary, and the Baltic States; massive strikes and civil unrest broke out in Britain,  Western Europe, and in both North and South  America. In the United States, a series of  terrorist bombings created a wave of hysteria,  later labeled the Great Red Scare, that  threatened the very foundations of a free and  democratic society. This book chronicles and  examines the running battle with terror during  the most revolutionary year since 1789.

The World on Fire. 1919 And the Battle With Bolshevism

History

World

Jonathan Cape Ltd.

From the pomp and glitter of the 1936 Olympics to the apocalyptic battle to capture the ruined capital of the Nazi Empire, The Fall of Berlin presents a kaleidoscopic portrait of one of the world's greatest cities caught between the lunacy and cruelty of its leaders and the brutal determination of encircling Soviet armies. The authors have delved into archival research, diaries, and memoirs, and conducted numerous interviews to recreate through brilliantly detailed vignettes the story of Berlin and its resilient inhabitants: the soldiers and ordinary citizens pounded by Allied bombing but maintaining their gallows humor; the endless procession of refugees; the 5,000 Jews who foiled the Nazi's rabid attempt to "purify" the capital; people like Dietrich Bonhoeffer who gave their lives in heroic anti-Nazi resistance while film stars and the well-connected lived in precarious luxury; the Third Reich's leaders jockeying for power in Hitler's underground bunker even as a ragged army of children, invalids, and old men confronted Soviet tanks in the rubble above; and of course, Hitler himself, trapped beneath a city he hated, waiting for the miracle promised him in horoscope readings. Not since Is Paris Burning? has a book so vividly evoked the daily struggle for survival and dignity in the nightmarish center of total war.

The Fall Of Berlin

Fisher, David

Europe

Da Capo Press

Operation Lucy, most secret spy ring of the Second World War

Hodder and Stoughton

Recounts the career of Lieutenant Colonel Sir Claude Marjoribanks Dansey, one of the most important and controversial figures in the world of espionage during the first half of the twentieth century

Colonel Z: The Secret Life of a Master of Spies

Fisher, A.

Hodder&Stoughton Ltd

Studies two powerful dictators maneuvering for advantage as they prepared for their fight to the death

Deadly Embrace: Hitler, Stalin and the Nazi-Soviet Pact, 1939-1941

Military

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

A narrative of the fall of Berlin chronicles the history of the city from the pomp and glitter of the 1936 OIympic games, through the rise of the Nazis and World War II, to the present. 15,000 first printing.

Traces Berlin's history from Holy Roman Empire times to its post-Cold War reunification, describing the extraordinary personalities--from Hohenzollern rulers to artists and performers--who directed its fate and the waves of immigrants who repeatedly transformed it.

Berlin Rising: Biography of a City

Americas

In 1835, Lord Macaulay, in his Minute on Indian Education, had prophesied that the eventual self-rule of India would be "the proudest day in British history." And yet when independence came on the stroke of midnight of August 14, 1947, events unfolded with a violence that shocked the world: entire trainloads of Muslim and Hindu refugees were slaughtered on their flight to safety --not by the British, but by each other. Macaulay's dream had become a flawed and bloody reality. The Proudest Day is a riveting account of the end of the Raj, the most romantic of all the great empires. Anthony Read and David Fisher tell the whole epic story in compelling and colorful detail from its beginnings more than a century earlier; their powerful narrative takes a fresh look at many of the events and personalities involved, especially the three charismatic giants --Gandhi, Nehru, and Jinnah --who dominated the final, increasingly bitter thirty years. Meanwhile, a succession of British politicians and viceroys veered wildly between liberalism and repression until the Raj became a powder keg, wanting only a match.

The Proudest Day: India's Long Road to Independence

Asia

W.W.Norton&Company

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The Fall of Berlin

Berlin: The biography of a city

The World on Fire. 1919 And the Battle With Bolshevism

The Fall Of Berlin

Operation Lucy, most secret spy ring of the Second World War

Colonel Z: The Secret Life of a Master of Spies

Deadly Embrace: Hitler, Stalin and the Nazi-Soviet Pact, 1939-1941

The Fall of Berlin

Berlin Rising: Biography of a City

The Proudest Day: India's Long Road to Independence