The Last Battle
The battle for Berlin, the last offensive against Hitler's Third Reich, began at 4 a.m., Monday, April 16, 1945. At that moment, flares burst in the skies above the Oder River, triggering an artillery barrage that opened the Russian assault. Before it ended 250,000 people would be killed.
As the attack began Berliners waited, numb and terrified, clinging to the only politics that mattered -- the politics of survival. For them, to endure had become most important.
"A brilliant and shaming book holding human nature in all its insensate folly up to the mirror of history." (The Times Literary Supplement)
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RELEASED1991
PUBLISHERBooks on Tape, Inc.
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Cornelius Ryan (5 June 1920 – 23 November 1974) was an Irish-American journalist and author known mainly for writing popular military history. He was especially known for his histories of World War II events: *The Longest Day: 6 June 1944 D-Day* (1959), *The Last Battle* (1966), and *A Bridge Too Far* (1974). **Source**: [Cornelius Ryan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius_Ryan) on Wikipedia.
The Last Battle
The battle for Berlin, the last offensive against Hitler's Third Reich, began at 4 a.m., Monday, April 16, 1945. At that moment, flares burst in the skies above the Oder River, triggering an artillery barrage that opened the Russian assault. Before it ended 250,000 people would be killed.
As the attack began Berliners waited, numb and terrified, clinging to the only politics that mattered -- the politics of survival. For them, to endure had become most important.
"A brilliant and shaming book holding human nature in all its insensate folly up to the mirror of history." (The Times Literary Supplement)
Outlet
RELEASED1991
PUBLISHERBooks on Tape, Inc.
LANGUAGEEN
Cornelius Ryan (5 June 1920 – 23 November 1974) was an Irish-American journalist and author known mainly for writing popular military history. He was especially known for his histories of World War II events: *The Longest Day: 6 June 1944 D-Day* (1959), *The Last Battle* (1966), and *A Bridge Too Far* (1974). **Source**: [Cornelius Ryan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius_Ryan) on Wikipedia.
