Retreat to Berlin

by Ian Baxter

Overview

Drawing on a superb collection of rare and unpublished photographs this latest book in the popular Images of War Series provides an absorbing insight into the last desperate year of the German Army. It analyses, in dramatic detail, the German retreat from the wastelands of the Eastern and Western Fronts into a bombed and devastated Third Reich to the very gates of Berlin.Accompanied by detailed captions and text, the book shows how Wehrmacht, Waffen-SS, Luftwaffe, Hitlerjugend and Volksturm personnel attempted to defend every yard of ground against the overwhelming Allied forces. As the final months of the war are played out the reader learns how the Germans fought to the death in a desperate attempt to prevent what Hitler called the two fold devastation of the Reich. Despite the adverse situation in which the German Army was placed, soldiers continued right to the very end, holding their lines under the constant hammer blows of ground and air bombardments. Those German forces that were fortunate enough to survive the overwhelming ferocity of the enemy onslaught, gradually streamed back to fight on home soil until they were either destroyed or were driven around a devastated Berlin.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781844688746
Publisher:	Pen & Sword Books Limited
Publication date:	06/02/2011
Series:	Images of War
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	48 MB
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About the Author

Ian Baxter has produced a fine selection of highly illustrated books in the Images of War Series mainly covering Axis Forces in WW2. He is a dedicated collector of rare images and an expert in his field. He lives near Chelmsford, Essex.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

Assessment of the German Soldier mid-late 1944 7

Chapter 1 Defensive Battles in the East 8

Chapter 2 Action in Poland 28

Chapter 3 Collapse in the East 49

Chapter 4 Defence of the Reich 69

Chapter 5 Stemming the Russian Advance 91

Chapter 6 Last Defence Before Berlin 110

Appendix I Hitler's 'Fortified Area' Order March 1944 123

Appendix II A Typical German Infantry Regiment 1944 125

The Author 128