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Article: The Fall of Berlin 1945.
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- Parameters
- Article date:
- September 22, 2003
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By Antony Beevor. New York: Viking Penguin Press, 2002.490 pages. $29.95.
A sequel to his best-seller The Battle of Stalingrad, Antony Beevor's The Fall of Berlin is a superb narrative account of the Red Army's climactic assault on Berlin, Hitler's "lair" and the formidable citadel of the Nazi Third Reich. In fact, both books are inexorably linked regarding theme, content, methodology, and style. As Beevor states in his Preface to Berlin, "On 1 February 1943, an angry Soviet colonel collared a group of emaciated German prisoners in the rubble of Stalingrad. 'That's how Berlin is going to look!' he yelled, pointing to the ruined buildings all around. When I read ...