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Bloody Streets: The Soviet Assault on Berlin (Bundled with Map Book)
by A. Stephan Hamilton (Author)
Publisher : Helion and Company | Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition – May 13 2020
On April 16th, 1945 the Red Army launched their fourth largest offensive along the Eastern Front during World War II. The objective was to seize Berlin before the Western Allies.
More casualties among its soldiers than during the six month siege of Stalingrad
Sixteen days later, the former capital of the Third Reich fell to the conquering armies of Generals Georgi Zhukov and his rival Ivan Koniev. The cost to capture the largest urban complex on mainland Europe from a handful of under-strength Heer and Waffen-SS divisions, supported by Volkssturm and Hitlerjugend formations armed mainly with Panzerfaust anti-armor rockets, was exceptionally high. The Red Army suffered more casualties among its soldiers than during the six month siege of Stalingrad, and it lost more armored vehicles than during the Battle of Kursk.
Total losses among the defenders and civilian population remain unknown. Central Berlin was left a wasteland. The scars of the street fighting are still visible today, seventy-five years after the battle.
Back in print completely revised
When Bloody Streets was first published in 2008 it detailed the tactical street fighting in Berlin day-by-day for the first time through vivid first person accounts and period aerial imagery of the city. Ten years later this ground breaking study is back in print completely revised. Previously unpublished first person accounts from both the German and Soviet perspectives supplement archival documents that include new data from the operational war diaries of the 1st Belorussian and 1st Ukrainian Fronts. The book is highly illustrated throughout with period images of the city, aerial overviews, and wartime photos.
Building on more than 15 years of research, the second edition of Bloody Streets is a capstone to the author’s prior works on the final climatic battles along the Eastern Front. It will remain a benchmark study of the Battle of Berlin for years to come.
Photos and maps
ISBN-10 : 1912866137
ISBN-13 : 978-1912866137
4.7 out of 5 stars (106)
Bloody Streets: The Soviet Assault on Berlin & Bloody Streets (Bundled with Map Book)
Item weight : 2.27 kg
Dimensions : 22.86 x 3.18 x 30.48 cm
574 pages
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Rory Doy (Amazon Reviews)
Reviewed in Canada on July 8, 2021
Great book!
Always loved the Battle of Berlin, so interesting is the last ditch battles of the period. This book goes great with Panzers in Berlin, for anybody who’s a huge WW2 buff this is a must have for the bookshelf.