Downfall 1945: The Fall Of Hitlers Third Reich

The final month of fighting in Europe saw the Wehrmacht battle on in a desperate last stand, driven on by the increasingly delusional orders issued by Adolf Hitler. With Berlin surrounded by the Red Army and British and US forces approaching from the west, it was clear that the Third Reich was on the brink of defeat. Yet, rather than celebrate their victories as they crushed the last pockets of German resistance, the Allies began to eye each other nervously across the battletorn continent. This book traces the final military operations of the war and the political agendas that guided them, analyzing how the Allied strategies in the final days of World War II were a hint of the future suspicion that would drive the Cold War.