Bibliograph

Taking Berlin, the bloody race to defeat the Third Reich, Martin Dugard

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Taking Berlin, the bloody race to defeat the Third Reich, Martin Dugard

Language

eng

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Includes index

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contains biographical information

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Taking Berlin

Oclc number

1313444507

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Martin Dugard

Sub title

the bloody race to defeat the Third Reich

Summary

"A nonfiction thriller about the race between the Allies and Soviets to conquer the heart of Nazi Germany"--, Provided by publisherFall 1944. Paris has been liberated, but this diversion on the road to Berlin has given the Germans time to regroup. The American and the British armies press on from the wet, while American general George Patton and British field marshal Bernard Montgomery vie for supremacy as the Allies' top battlefield commander. The Soviet begin to squeeze Hitler's crumbling Reich, led by generals Georgy Zhukov and Ivan Konev. And Winston Churchill seeks to ensure Britain's place in a new world. Dugard follows the final, desperate months of the Second World War, and the fiery destruction of the Thousand-Year Reich. -- adapted from jacket

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Bloody race to defeat the Third Reich

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