'Very good indeed... An excellent tableau of the Berlin apocalypse' - The Times
Anthony Read and David Fisher had extremely successful careers in television as writers and producers before embarking on their collaboration as authors. Their bestselling books include Berlin- The Biography of a City, The Proudest Day- India's Long Road to Independence (both available from Pimlico), Operation Lucy, Colonel Z, The Deadly Embrace and Kristallnacht for which they were awarded the H. H. Wingate Prize in 1989. Anthony Read is currently at work on a group biography of those closest to Hitler (Cape, 2003).
"Excellent" The Times "Read and Fisher provide a cogent panorama of the great struggle...A graphic guidebook for a never-to-be-forgotten city tour" -- C.J. Fox Independent
"Excellent" The Times "Read and Fisher provide a cogent panorama of the great struggle...A graphic guidebook for a never-to-be-forgotten city tour" -- C.J. Fox Independent
The British team of Read and Fisher ( Kristallnacht , LJ 10/15/88, and The Deadly Embrace , LJ 11/15/89) turn their attention to the bombing of Berlin by the British and Americans and how the Russian Army fought its way toward and through Berlin in 1945. The authors intend no startling new interpretations or profound analysis. Instead, they offer vignettes, often based on diaries, to describe life in Berlin late in the war. They also retell the story of fanatical Nazi leaders and of the Wehrmacht's desperate efforts to defend the city. The result is a highly readable and, at the same time, sophisticated and reliable narrative history. One objection: no good reason exists to call the Oder-Neisse ``the ancient frontier of the German empire.''-- Robert W. Frizzell, Hendrix Coll. Lib., Conway, Ark.
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