Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Author’s Note
Preface

Introduction: the Slavs and the Teutons
1 Fritz and Ivan: The Opposing Forces
2 Memel
3 Nemmersdorf
4 The Last Christmas
5 The House of Cards - the Great January Offensive
6 Cherniakhovsky and the Pregel Valley
7 Rokossovsky reaches the Coast
8 Encircled in East Prussia
9 Hannibal - The Baltic Evacuation Begins
10 The Riviera of Hades and the Fall of Pomerania
11 Heiligenbeil - Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
12 Konigsberg
13 Danzig
14 The Last Command
15 The Long Road Home

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Promotional Information

An engrossing history of the last year of the Second World War, charting the battles fought between the Soviet Red Army and the Nazis across German soil.

About the Author

Prit Buttar studied medicine at Oxford and London before joining the British Army as a doctor. After leaving the army, he has worked as a GP, first near Bristol and now in Abingdon. He is extensively involved in medical politics, both at local and national level, and serves on the GPs' Committee of the British Medical Association. He appears from time to time on local and national TV and radio, speaking on a variety of medical issues. He contributes regularly to the medical press. He has written a novel, but this is his first work of military history.

Reviews

"A powerful pick... It comes packed with action shots and photos, first-hand accounts from soldiers on both sides -- most of which have never appeared in English -- and follows the months between the arrival of the Red Army in Germany to the collapse of Hitler's regime. No military collection strong in World War II should be without this specific, in-depth analysis." --The Midwest Book Review (December 2010)..".[a] marvelously written and illustrated new work with excellent maps on a series of battles too long overlooked ... deserves to be read by any true devotee of World War II." --Military Advisor (Winter 2010/2011)

A powerful pick... It comes packed with action shots and photos, first-hand accounts from soldiers on both sides -- most of which have never appeared in English -- and follows the months between the arrival of the Red Army in Germany to the collapse of Hitler's regime. No military collection strong in World War II should be without this specific, in-depth analysis. The Midwest Book Review (December 2010) ...[a] marvelously written and illustrated new work with excellent maps on a series of battles too long overlooked ... deserves to be read by any true devotee of World War II. Military Advisor (Winter 2010/2011)"

A powerful pick... It comes packed with action shots and photos, first-hand accounts from soldiers on both sides -- most of which have never appeared in English -- and follows the months between the arrival of the Red Army in Germany to the collapse of Hitler's regime. No military collection strong in World War II should be without this specific, in-depth analysis. "The Midwest Book Review (December 2010)" ...[a] marvelously written and illustrated new work with excellent maps on a series of battles too long overlooked ... deserves to be read by any true devotee of World War II. "Military Advisor (Winter 2010/2011)""

"A powerful pick... It comes packed with action shots and photos, first-hand accounts from soldiers on both sides - most of which have never appeared in English - and follows the months between the arrival of the Red Army in Germany to the collapse of Hitler's regime. No military collection strong in World War II should be without this specific, in-depth analysis." - The Midwest Book Review (December 2010)
..".[a] marvelously written and illustrated new work with excellent maps on a series of battles too long overlooked ... deserves to be read by any true devotee of World War II." -"Military Advisor "(Winter 2010/2011)