LAST DAYS OF THE REICH

Author: James Lucas

Publisher: Arms & Armour Press

Year published: 1986

Pagination: 250pp, 100 ills and maps, appendices, bibliography, index

Condition: vg in d/w

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With the rout on the Eastern Front in May 1945, Berlin faced destruction, meanwhle in the West, the Allies pushed across the Rhine and deeper into Hitler's Reich. This was a time for revenge by the occupied peoples and partisans - the Czechs, the Yugoslavs and the Russians - on their racial and political enemies as well as the Germans. It was the end in Austria and Italy and, on the Western Front, British, American and French troops faced old men and boys armed only with makeshift weapons