Book Review

Downfall 1945: The Fall of Hitler’s Third Reich

By Steven J. Zaloga

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Comments: softcover, 96 pages, 60 black-and-white and 3 color photos, 11 color maps, 4 color illustrations

ISBN: 978-1-4728-1143-1

Price: $24

Publisher: Osprey Publishing

From the publisher: Traces final operations of the war, including the liberation of Denmark, the Allied drive toward the Baltic straits, incursions in Eastern Europe, and engagements in eastern and western Germany, while also analyzing how the Allied strategies in the final days of the war foreshadowed the coming Cold War.

FSM says: German, Soviet, and western Allied commanders, armies, and order of battle precede the account of World War II’s endgame with the closing of the Ruhr pocket, the fall of Berlin and the liberation of Prague. Combat and vehicle photos as well as urban scenes, paint a portrait of the times, showing late-production equipment and the final disposition of the opposing forces.

 

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