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"A tale drenched in drama and blood, heroism and cowardice, loyalty and betrayal."—Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post

Beevor's latest book Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge is now available from Viking Books

The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Third Reich in January 1945. Frenzied by their terrible experiences with Wehrmacht and SS brutality, they wreaked havoc—tanks crushing refugee columns, mass rape, pillage, and unimaginable destruction. Hundreds of thousands of women are children froze to death or were massacred; more than seven million fled westward from the fury of the Red Army. It was the most terrifying example of fire and sword ever known.

Antony Beevor has reconstructed the experiences of those millions caught up in the nightmare of the Third Reich's final collapse. The Fall of Berlin is a terrible story of pride, stupidity, fanaticism, revenge, and savagery, yet it is also one of astonishing endurance, self-sacrifice, and survival against all odds.

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By December 1944, many of the 3 million citizens of Berlin had stopped giving the Nazi salute, and jokes circulated that the most practical Christmas gift of the season was a coffin. And for good reason, military historian Antony Beevor writes in this richly detailed reconstruction of events in the final days of Adolf Hitler's Berlin. Following savage years of campaigns in Russia, the Nazi regime had not only failed to crush Bolshevism, it had brought the Soviet army to the very gates of the capital. That army, ill-fed and hungry for vengeance, unloosed its fury on Berlin just a month later in a long siege that would cost hundreds of thousands of lives on both sides. But as Beevor recounts, the siege was also marked by remarkable acts of courage and even compassion. Drawing on unexplored Soviet and German archives and dozens of eyewitness accounts, Beevor brings us a harrowing portrait of the battle and its terrible aftermath, which would color world history for years to follow. --Gregory McNamee --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Covering the months from January to May in 1945, as Soviet and other Allied troops advanced to Berlin, freelance British historian Beevor (Stalingrad) opts for direct narrative with overheard quotes from the main players, making the reader an eavesdropper to Hitler and Stalin's obiter dicta. Brisk and judgmental, the narrative is studded with short sentences and summary judgments: about Nazi minister Hermann Goring, we are told that his "vanity was as ludicrous as his irresponsibility" and he looked more like " `a cheerful market woman' than a Marshal of the Reich." During the rubble-strewn city's Christmas of 1944, "the quip of that festive season was: `be practical: give a coffin.' " The book is based on material from former Soviet files as well as from German, American, British, French and Swedish archives, but the somewhat limited bibliography is disappointing, and many of the usual sources are quoted, such as Hitler's personal secretary, who took dictation in the bunker to the end. Her expectation that Hitler would suddenly produce "a profound explanation" of the war's "great purpose" says as much about German self-delusion of the time as about Hitler, but here and elsewhere, Beevor simply quotes her flatly and fails to connect the dots. However, given the scope of this book the 1945 advance on Berlin is thought to be the largest battle in history, with two and a half million Soviet troops attacking one million Germans the summary approach is inevitable.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Paperback: 528 pages
Publisher: Penguin Books; Reissue edition (April 29, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0142002801
ISBN-13: 978-0142002803
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1.2 x 8.4 inches
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What happened to the maps? Why wasn't the digital edition edited?

ByD.E.on June 28, 2015

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The text is good but there are a fair number of errors in the digital version suggesting that when OCR was applied to the print text no one edited the digital version. Parenthesis are often misplaced and "1st" becomes "ist" throughout. The kindle version is also devoid of maps but I am pretty sure the print version has them. Why is this? In a way I feel kind of cheated. I used various online map websites when the opportunity arose but frequently I read in the morning before work at a coffee shop and I don't carry a tablet or personal laptop with me and moreover I don't want to have to open another device to read the book....I have a Kindle for convenience (I can buy a book right away or borrow it from the library etc) and to save space on my book overflowing shelves. I know that maps don't work terribly well on a Kindle because of the screen size , but they should still be included if they are in the original. I am going to complain to Amazon. The one reason I bought the kindle version and not a used hardcover for like 25 cents plus shipping that I bought Stalingrad years ago pre Amazon (remember those days- actual book stores!) and the physical condition of the new book was so bad that it fell apart in just a few weeks.

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Decent storytelling; poor bookmaking, especially in the Kindle version

BySteve HarrisonVINE VOICEon February 17, 2016

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This is a well-done combination of military and social history. It breaks no new ground but is a useful summary.

On the Kindle version, on any platform, and as usual, the maps are hard to get to and hard to read. If you want to follow troop movements -- which Beevor, a military historian, describes in detail -- get a hard copy of the book or use your own maps.

Beevor's prose is decent but his mistakes are annoying. "Orientate" and "disorientate," for example, are not words. In the old days (twenty years ago and more) there was, somewhere along the publishing process, a person called an "editor" who would do what was called "editing," which involved among other things preventing this sort of blunder from making its way into print. That now-obsolete fellow might also have seen to it that "Werwolf" wasn't spelled three different ways in four pages. And there are typographical glitches that seem to be the sort of Kindle conversion errors that have become routine.

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ByImmeron June 12, 2015

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As the Soviet Union prepared to invade Germany, “the Red Army had 6.7 million men along a front which stretched from the Baltic to the Adriatic, twice the strength of the Wehrmacht and its allies when they invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941.” For the assault on Berlin, the Soviet forces included 2.5 million men, 41,600 guns and heavy mortars, plus 6,250 tanks and self-propelled guns, and four air armies. Bevor states, “It was the greatest concentration of firepower ever amassed”. Germany opposed these forces with a withered army that was being pounded on three fronts, an all but non-existent Luftwaffe, and the stifling leadership of Adolph Hitler who had lost all sense of reality in regard to what Germany’s armed forces were capable of performing.

Long on narrative, Antony Bevor’s The Fall of Berlin captures the chaos of German resistance, and the tragedy that befell the German people. However, one might conclude the German people invited this catastrophe upon themselves by following Hitler into self- destruction. Some other reviewers are critical of Bevor in regard to his reporting of the rape of German women that followed the occupation of Soviet troops. They write, “What about the German atrocities committed during the war”? The literature covering German atrocities could fill a small library. Bevor’s book is about Berlin and what occurred there.

One is addled by the last ditch effort put up by Germany. Opposing the overwhelming numbers of Soviet men and material were undersupplied troops, old men, and boys. The insanity of Hitler and his upper echelon of supporters are captured by Bevor, as German people and properties were laid to waste for a failed ideology. I think what grabbed my interest the most was the indignation felt by Russian troops as they began to occupy East Prussia and Germany proper when they observed the relative wealth of the German people. Why would people who had so much feel the need to invade the Soviet Union?

Bevor does a decent job at capturing the cat and mouse game that transpired between allied forces in regard to intentions of movement within Germany. Stalin is portrayed as paranoid in his obsession to capture Berlin. The loss of life among his forces seemed to mean little in terms of the goal, all the while that German defenses were collapsing like a house of cards. The Western allies in general, Eisenhower in particular, saw little reason to waste the lives of their men as they could see the sorry state of German forces and defenses. The end was near.

One small complaint about Bevor’s The Fall of Berlin is the stilted Russian translations. It’s almost as if one is reading the work of a 4th grader. In place of a literal word for word translation, why not Anglicize it just a bit? There are masterpieces of Russian literature translated into English that are a joy to read. A bit more time spent with the translation of Soviet Russian sources into a more readable, fluent English would have given Bevor’s work a much more polished finish.

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... reading Stalingrad I wanted to see what payback looked like. The Russian army behaved as brutally as any ...

BySuper Lit.on January 3, 2017

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After reading Stalingrad I wanted to see what payback looked like. The Russian army behaved as brutally as any army in history. Including Attila the Hun. Modern Russian historians/scholars have re-written this part of their history. If you can say sugar coated then that might be close. Most of it is impossible to cover up. Women were treated as animals to be shackled inside of barns and kept there for entire armies to take pleasure in. Young and old alike. Fear the Red Army!

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Not bad, but not great either...

ByF. Hendersonon March 20, 2012

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This is not a tactical retelling of the Battle of Berlin so if you are looking for that this isn't the book for you. The military movements are dealt with but this book relies more on first-hand accounts. As other reviewers have pointed much of this material can be found in other books. It's a nice little book and a welcome addition to the literature of the fall of Berlin but this is not a definitive account.

A few reviewers have said that this book is biased against the Russians but I don't believe that to be the case. As John Adams once said "facts are stubborn things" and the facts are that some members of the Red Army raped German women as they made their way across the German east. This book doesn't need to deal with the German atrocities that fomented the Russian hatred because it already happened in the context of the overall story, plus I think every reader has an understanding of what the Germans did in Russia. The author cites many incidents of violence against the population, but also acts of kindness on the part of the Red Army. The author is simply stating what happened, the blame rests with the German actions in the East, Stalin for fanning the flames, and the Red Army commanders who couldn't control their troops.

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Excellent.

I first read "Fall of Stalingrad" then "Fall of Berlin" after by the same author. Tragic the amount of suffering on both sides. Both well researched and written.Read more

Published 23 hours ago by thomas g rorrer

Sets up the Story Perfectly, and then Outlines the Final Battle in Berlin

There are several excellent accounts of the final days of the European theater of war during WWII focusing on the fall of Berlin and the death throes of the Third Reich.Read more

Published 19 days ago by Jeff

Four Stars

A very well written book

Published 20 days ago by John Thrash

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Beevor delivers again - one book worth reading!

Published 22 days ago by Trond Haga

Less Rape, More History

Unfortunately it was more like reading the captions of a military history atlas plus too many references to the rape of German women by the Russian soldiers.Read more

Published 1 month ago by Matt Anderson

Conquering the Seat of Evil

There are many individual accounts which make the book valuable for me. Deals much more with the actual battle than Cornelius Ryan's book, "The Last Battle," to which it...Read more

Published 1 month ago by Matthew Brennan

with an emphasis on "characters" whose distinct personalities emerge like a novel---Heinz Guderian

provides more of the same sort of details as was written in his "The Second World War", while also delving even deeper, with specific reports and stories from the eastern...Read more

Published 2 months ago by Aiex Halo

Accurate historical book

Fantastic recount of one of the bloodiest battles in modern times, excellent attention to detail, on political, military and civilian perspectives in regards to the conflict.

Published 3 months ago by Amazon Customer

Five Stars

Good book

Published 3 months ago by chris gomez

So biased and admirative of the German military!

Shocking to see that in 2003 an Englishman can publish such a biased book about history. The Soviets who beard the brunt of defeating the Nazi armies (90%) as opposed to the West,...Read more

Published 4 months ago by philippe jacob

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