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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  anderew | Feb 20, 2009 |  A nightmare account of revenge and how two systems can clash in a way that causes the destruction of civilian life. Great on characters and tactics. And, as with Stalingrad, the big picture is effortlessly infused with small details that make it breath. (  ) frank_oconnor | Jul 23, 2008 | Another brilliantly managed & expertly detailed study by Beevor. I read this after being so impressed by his books on the Spanish Civil War & Stalingrad & wasn't disappointed. 26/3/08 ( ) mareki | May 2, 2008 | 3860. The Fall of Berlin 1946, by Antony Beevor (read 24 Feb 2004) Since on 18 Jan 1964 I read Cornelius Ryan's The Last Battle and on 25 May 1967 I read H. R. Trevor-Roper's The Last Days of Hitler I am not sure why I thought I needed to read this book, other than that those books were read so many years ago. The account of Hitler's doings as the Battle for Berlin raged fiercely and chaotically was of high interest, but the account of the various Russian and Nazi units and their doings was less absorbing. But reading of the end of Hitler is always bound to be fun, since it is enjoyable to read of his despair and extinction. (  ) Schmerguls | Oct 31, 2007 | 
 On 1 February 1943, as the German Sixth Army surrendered to the Russians after a battle that had created a new nightmare of the horrors of modern warfare, a Soviet colonel gathered some bedraggled, starving German prisoners and, waving at the shattered ruins of Stalingrad, he shouted, 'That's how Berlin is going to look.' That decided Antony Beevor: that after his bestselling Stalingrad he had to write the story of the fall of Berlin. This brilliant storyteller has again delivered history with a thriller's pace
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