Berlin 柏林

This book could not possibly have been researched without the help of many people. I am first of all deeply obliged to the directors and staff in numerous archives: Colonel Shuvashin and the staff of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defence (TsAMO) at Podolsk; Dr Natalya Borisovna Volkova and her staff at the Russian State Archive for Litera-ture and the Arts (RGALI); Dr Vladimir Kuzelenkov and Dr Vladimir Korotaev of the Russian State Military Archive (RGVA); Professor Kyrill Mikhailovich Andersen and Dr Oleg Vladimirovich Naumov at the Russian State Archive for Social-Political History (RGASPI); Dr Manfred Kehrig, Director of the Bundesarchiv-Militiirarchiv, Freiburg,and Frau Weibl; Dr Rolf-Dieter Mtiller and Hauptmann Luckszat at the MGFA in Potsdam; Professor Dr Eckhart Henning of the Archiv zur Geschichte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft; Dr Wulf-Ekkehard Lucke at the Landesarchiv-Berlin; Frau Irina Renz of the Bibliothek fur Zeit-geschichte in Stuttgart; Dr Lars Ericson and Per Clason at the Krigsarki-vet in Stockholm; John E. Taylor, Wilbert Mahoney and Robin Cookson at National Archives II, College Park, Maryland; Dr Jeffrey Clarke at the United States Army Center of Military History.

Antony Beevor was educated at Winchester and Sandhurst, A regular officer in the 11th Hussars, he served in Germany and England.He has pubished several novels,while his works of non-fiction include The Spanish Civil War,Crete:The Battle and the Resistance,which won the 1993 Runciman Award,Stalingrad and Berlin:The Downfall1945.With his wife,Artemis Cooper,he wrote Paris After the Liberation:1944-1949.Stalingrad wasawarded the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction,the Wolfson History Prize and the Hawthornden Prize in 1999.It became a number-one bestseller both in hardback and paperback,the UK edition alone selling over half a million copies.It is being published around the world in twenty-four translations.Berlin:The Downfall 1945 was also a number-one bestseller and is being translated into twenty-four languages.Most of his titles are published by Penguin.

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PREFACE
I Berlin in the New Year
2 The 'House of Cards' on the Vistula
3 Fire and Sword and 'Noble Fury'
4 The Great Winter Offensive
5 The Charge to the Oder
6 East and West
7 Clearing the Rear Areas
8 Pomerania and the Oder Bridgeheads
9 Objective Berlin
IO The Kamarilla and the General Staff
Preparing the Coup de Grace
12 Waiting for the Onslaught
13 Americans on the Elbe
14 Eve of Battle
15 Zhukov on the Reitwein Spur
16 Seelow and the Spree
17 The Fahrer's Last Birthday
18 The Flight of the Golden Pheasants
19 The Bombarded City
2o False Hopes
21 Fighting in the City
22 Fighting in the Forest
23 The Betrayal of the Will
24 Fahrerddmmerung
25 Reich Chancellery and Reichstag
26 The End of the Battle
27 Vae Victis
28 The Man on the White Horse
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SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX