Berlin: The Downfall 1945

Beevor, Antony

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670030414 ISBN 13: 9780670030415

Verlag: Viking, 2002

BERLIN, THE DOWNFALL 1945 de BEEVOR, Antony 2002 Penguin

Reseña del editor:

The horror of Berlin's fall to the Soviets in 1945 is chronicled here in vivid, shocking detail, recalling the starvation, exposure, artillery fire, rape, and mass destruction that marked the Red Army's final push on Germany's capital. By the author of Stalingrad. 50,000 first printing.

Biografía del autor:

Antony Beevor is the author of Crete: The Battle and the Resistance (Runciman Prize), Stalingrad (Samuel Johnson Prize, Wolfson Prize for History and Hawthornden Prize), Berlin: The Downfall, The Battle for Spain (Premio La Vanguardia), D-Day: The Battle for Normandy (Prix Henry Malherbe and the RUSI Westminster Medal), The Second World War, and Ardennes 1944 (shortlist Prix Médicis). The Number One bestselling historian in Britain, Beevor's books have appeared in thirty-two languages and have sold just over seven million copies. A former chairman of the Society of Authors, he has received a number of honorary doctorates. He is also a visiting professor at the University of Kent and an Honorary Fellow of King's College, London. He was knighted in 2017.