The Last Battle - Berlin 1945: Cornelius Ryan

The Last Battle - Berlin 1945

Book in excellent used condition, book cover a bit torn, has allot of pictures and maps in the book consist of 463 pages. 

The Last Battle, Cornelius Ryan's second volume of what is unofficially called the World War II trilogy, is a masterful account of the Battle of Berlin, one of the bloodiest -- and most controversial -- engagements of the war. It was marked by desperate courage and fanaticism on the part of the German defenders, disillusion and some bitterness among the Western Allies, and determination and a thirst for retribution on the part of the Russians -- who were so set on taking Berlin that some Soviet generals vowed to fire on any American or British units that might attempt to race them to the German capital