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1 online resource (1 audio file (4hr., 58 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Jonathan Cowley. |
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The last year of the war saw Russian offensives that cleared the Germans out of their final strongholds in Finland and the Baltic states, before advancing into Finnmark in Norway and the east European states that bordered Germany: Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. By spring 1945 the Red Army had reached to Vienna and the Balkans, and had thrust deep into Germany where they met American, French, and British troops advancing from the west. The final days of the Third Reich were at hand. Berlin was first surrounded, then attacked and taken. Hitler's suicide and his successors' unconditional surrender ended the war. For writers and historians who concentrate on the Western Allies and the battles in France and the Low Countries, the Eastern Front comes as a shock. The sheer size of both the territories and the forces involved; the savagery of both weather and the fighting; the appalling suffering of the civilian populations of all countries; and the wreckage of towns and cities-it's no wonder that words like Armageddon are used to describe the annihilation. A must-listen narrative history, Red Army into the Reich provides a detailed account of how the Red Army pushed west and into Berlin in 1945. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Soviet Union. Raboche-Krestʹi︠a︡nskai︠a︡ Krasnai︠a︡ Armii︠a︡.
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Soviet Union. Raboche-Krestʹi︠a︡nskai︠a︡ Krasnai︠a︡ Armii︠a︡ -- Pictorial works.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Soviet Union.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Soviet.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Soviet Union -- Pictorial works.
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Hook, Patrick, author.
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Cornish, Nik, 1954- author.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781666187519 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1666187518 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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MWT14737955 |
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