Antony Beevor Collection 3 Books Set (The Second World War, Berlin The Downfall)

Name: Antony Beevor Collection 3 Books Set (The Second World War, Berlin The Downfall)
Brand: Antony Beevor

Antony Beevor

Description:. Condition: BRAND NEW. Format: Paperback. The Second World War:The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China. The war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war in the Pacific and China, and yet events on opposite sides of the world had profound effects. Using the most up-to-date scholarship and research, Beevor assembles the whole picture in a gripping narrative that extends from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific and from the snowbound steppe to the North African Desert.Berlin: The Downfall 1945:The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945. Political instructors rammed home the message of Wehrmacht and SS brutality. The result was the most terrifying example of fire and sword ever known, with tanks crushing refugee columns under their tracks, mass rape, pillage and destruction.Hundreds of thousands of...