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Prussian Apocalypse: The Fall of Danzig 1945 - Hardcover

Kieser, Egbert

 
9781848846746: Prussian Apocalypse: The Fall of Danzig 1945

Synopsis

Egbert Kieser's graphic account of the Red Army's assault on East Prussia in 1945 is one of the classic histories of the destruction of Hitler's Germany, and it has never before been available in English. Using extensive, first-hand, unforgettable eyewitness testimony, he documents in riveting detail the catastrophe that overtook German civilians and soldiers as they fled from the Soviet onslaught and their world collapsed around them. Tony Le Tissier, in this fluent and vivid translation of the original German text, brings to bear all his expert knowledge of the military defeat of the German armies in the East and the enormity of the human disaster that went with it. Egbert Kieser was born in1928 in Bad Salzungen, Thuringen and studied philosophy and the history of art at Heidelberg University. He worked as a freelance journalist, writer and editor. Among his many publications are two outstanding studies of German Second World War history - Danziger Bucht 1945 (which is translated here as Prussian Apocalypse) and Operation Sea Lion: The German Plan to Invade Britain, 1940.

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Egbert Kiesers history of the Red Armys assault on East Prussia in 1945 is a riveting narrative of the last months of the Second World War on the Eastern Front. Using extensive eyewitness testimony, it describes in unflinching detail the horrors that engulfed German civilians and soldiers as their world collapsed around them. This superb translation makes the classic account of the death-throes of Hitlers Reich available to English-speaking readers for the first time.

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