Publisher's Synopsis
Exploring the Battle for Berlin and the last months of the Third Reich and the defense of Berlin, this title 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.
