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10-11-2007, 11:37 AM
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| Angels one-five   Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Somewhere in Time
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 |  The last few weeks - Berlin Hi All. Can anybody recommend good books about the last few weeks or months of WWII in Berlin, please. I have Read Antony Beevor - 'Berlin (The Downfall)' and found it excellent as well as 'Berlin - Then and Now'. Any help would be great. Thanx.
__________________ '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. In the USAAF in World War II, over three times as many men were killed as wounded. Donald L. Miller. Avatar: SOE agent Andree Borrel killed at Natzweiler 6th July 1944.  |
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10-11-2007, 12:18 PM
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| Senior Member   Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Alabama via Grantham Lincolnshire
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| Try "The Last Battle" by Cornelius Ryan (Simon and Schuster) AbeBooks: Search Results - cornelius ryan and the last battle
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10-11-2007, 01:11 PM
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| Very Senior Member  Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Lancashire, UK
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| Soldat Siegfried Knapp. Amazing story Amazon.com: Soldat: Reflections of a German Soldier, 1936-1949: Books: Siegfried Knappe |
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10-11-2007, 09:12 PM
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| Angels one-five Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Somewhere in Time
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| Thanks guys, will check them out. Watched Donwfall again last night and can't imagine what madness and sheer hell Berlin must have been in those few weeks. How anyone survived.......
__________________ '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. In the USAAF in World War II, over three times as many men were killed as wounded. Donald L. Miller. Avatar: SOE agent Andree Borrel killed at Natzweiler 6th July 1944. |
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