Endgame, 1945: The Missing Final Chapter of World War II
A World War II, Military, War book. Like a lot of you guys, I love the Second World War history. I've been reading about it...
To end a history of World War II at VE Day is to leave the tale half told. While the war may have seemed all but over by Hitler's final birthday (April 20), Stafford's chronicle of the three months that followed tells a different, and much richer, story. ENDGAME 1945 highlights the gripping personal stories of nine men and women, ranging from soldiers to POWs to war correspondents, who witnessed firsthand the Allied struggle to finish the terrible game at last. Through their ground-level movements, Stafford traces the elaborate web of events that led to the war's real resolution: the deaths of Hitler and Mussolini, the liberation of Buchenwald and Dachau, and the Allies' race with the Red Army to establish a victors' foothold in Europe, to name a few. From Hitler's April decision never to surrender to the start of the Potsdam Conference, Stafford brings an unprecedented focus to the war's "final chapter." Narrative history...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 512 pages
- ISBN: 9780316109802 / 316109800
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This book puts a face on the horror of war experienced by nine different individuals, both soldiers and civilians. Their different locations and experiences give a fuller perspective to how the war came to an end and how it continued after victory was declared. Millions died after the war ended, and this book tells you how and why the... Like a lot of you guys, I love the Second World War history. I've been reading about it since I was old enough to pick up a book, covering all theaters, battles, and periods. This one was new for me though, and it was an amazingly enlightening read that covers the final month of fighting in Europe until the end of the Potsdam conference.... This book related events in Europe after the official end of WWII in Europe -- there was still chaos, fighting and killing and lots of it. The author tells the story of eight people -- soldiers, a war correspondent, a civilian humanitarian aid worker, and a prisoner of the Nazis -- and uses them to relate the horrors of those final...
