The Fall of Hitler&039;s Fortress City: The Battle for Konigsberg, 1945
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Название: The Fall of Hitlers Fortress City: The Battle for Konigsberg, 1945
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Автор: Isabel Denny
Год выпуска: 2007
Формат: PDF
Размер: 12,4 МБ
ISBN: 700586942210
Язык: Английский
СКАЧАТЬ The Fall of Hitlers Fortress City: The Battle for Konigsberg, 1945 БЕСПЛАТНО EPUB - DOC - DJVU - RTF - PDFОписание: 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, K&246;nigsberg.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 June 1944, to coincide with the D-Day landings. As US and British forces pushed west the Russians liberated Eastern Europe and made their first attacks on German soil in the autumn of 1944. K&246;nigsberg itself was badly damaged by two British air raids at the end of August 1944, and the main offensive against the city by the Red Army began in January 1945.