Cornelius Ryan THE LAST BATTLE First Edition
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Cornelius Ryan THE LAST BATTLE First Edition
First UK edition first print hardback of THE LAST BATTLE by Cornelius Ryan and published by Collins in 1966.The book is in very good condition (green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine) with light bumping to the corners and top and bottom edges of the spine. The book is in a very good- unclipped dust jacket which has light creasing, rubbing and chipping to the edges. Internally the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears or inscriptions.
The classic account of the final offensive against Hitler's Third Reich.
The Battle for Berlin was the culminating struggle of World War II in the European theater, the last offensive against Hitler's Third Reich, which devastated one of Europe's historic capitals and marked the final defeat of Nazi Germany. It was also one of the war's bloodiest and most pivotal battles, whose outcome would shape international politics for decades to come.
Cornelius Ryan's compelling account of this final battle is a story of brutal extremes, of stunning military triumph alongside the stark conditions that the civilians of Berlin experienced in the face of the Allied assault. As always, Ryan delves beneath the military and political forces that were dictating events to explore the more immediate imperatives of survival, where, as the author describes it, to eat had become more important than to love, to burrow more dignified than to fight, to exist more militarily correct than to win.
It is the story of ordinary people, both soldiers and civilians, caught up in the despair, frustration, and terror of defeat. It is history at its best, a masterful illumination of the effects of war on the lives of individuals, and one of the enduring works on World War II.
463 pages including Illustrations, Bibliography, Acknowledgements and Index.
ISBN: N/A
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