15-03-2006, 10:00 PM
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| Battle of Barking Creek
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Somewhere in Time
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Originally Posted by St. Ives I've recently finished BERLIN (the downfall 1945) by Antony Beevor. A big book. It had to be as it covers practically everything in the last months of the war, in particular the Russian's advance on Berlin and the atrocities they (Russians) caused: apparently two million German women were raped by the Red Army during WW2.
BERLIN is mammoth book, thoroughly researched (what else would you expect from Beevor) and worth the effort of getting through it. I highly recommend it. | I would also recommend it. Very well written. 
__________________ 'There I stood at the bar, wearing a Mae West, no jacket, and beginning to leak blood from my torn boot. None of the golfers took any notice of me - after all, I wasn't a member!' Kenneth Lee - after being shot down on the 18th August 1940. John McClane: "Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs..."
Avatar: SOE (F Section) agent Andree Borrel murdered at Natzweiler Camp 6th July 1944. |
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