The Fall of Hitler's Fortress City

Heroism and tragedy in the East, in the face of the Red Army's onslaught . . .In 1945, in the face of the advancing Red Army, two and a half million people were forced out of Germany's most easterly province, East Prussia, and in particular its capital, Königsberg. Their flight was a direct result of Hitler's ill-fated decision to invade the Soviet Union in 1941. Now that the Germans were in retreat, the horrors of Leningrad and Stalingrad were to be avenged by an army determined not only to invade Germany but to take over its eastern territories. The Russians launched Operation Bagration in Ju.

שנה

2007

שפה

English

הוצאה

Casemate

מהדורות

6

עמודים

256

ISBN

9781612000589

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata