Prit Buttar

Into the Reich

The Red Army's Advance to the Oder in 1945

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Enriched by extraordinary first-hand accounts, this is a fascinating history of the dying days of the Third Reich as Stalin sought to consolidate his own empire.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 156mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 696g
• ISBN-13: 9781472866998
• ISBN-10: 1472866991
• Artikelnr.: 72604992

Autorenporträt

Prit Buttar is a retired doctor who has written extensively on the Eastern Front in both World Wars. His books have been translated into Polish, Lithuanian, Estonian, Finnish, Italian, Hungarian, and Chinese. An established expert on the Eastern Front in 20th-century military history, his most recent titles include a critically acclaimed two-volume series on the siege of Leningrad.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Dramatis Personae
Introduction: Towards a Grim Winter
Chapter 1: Preparing for Armageddon: The Wehrmacht
Chapter 2: The Red Army: 'Forward, forward at any cost!'
Chapter 3: Konev's Hammer Blow: 12-13 January
Chapter 4: Zhukov Joins the Offensive: 14-16 January
Chapter 5: Warsaw-Kraków-Lódz: 17-19 January
Chapter 6: Roads of Suffering and Death
Chapter 7: Draconian Punishment, Fanatical Defence
Chapter 8: Poznan and the Northern Sector
Chapter 9: The Wandering Cauldron: Konev Turns South, 20-31 January
Chapter 10: 1st Belarusian Front: The Advance to the Lower Oder
Chapter 11: 1st Ukrainian Front: The Conquest of Silesia
Chapter 12: Sonnenwende and Pomerania
Chapter 13: Lauban
Chapter 14: Conclusion: Defiance and Despair
Notes
Bibliography
Index