The Fall of Berlin 1945 By Antony Beavor Viking, 490 pages, $29.95 There was never any doubt about the outcome of the Battle of Berlin in 1945. The Soviet army had massed 4 million men in Poland ...

Germany 1945. On 2 May 1945, after one of the most intense battles in human history, the guns at last stopped firing amongst the ruins of Berlin.

BERLIN (AP) — Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in an intense fight for the capital in May 1945. After decades of division and its ...

The theme, then, of “The Fall of Berlin 1945” is revenge, and on so colossal a scale and with such merciless intensity as to, in the words of Yeats, “make a stone of the heart.” ...

The final Battle of Berlin in late April and early May 1945 reduced much of what was left of the city to rubble. The Soviet military attacked from several directions with an enormous concentration ...

The military surrender of Berlin on May 2, 1945, wasn’t quite the end of the war. Hitler’s successor, Grand Adm. Karl Dönitz, tried to fight on but was quickly forced to negotiate Germany’s ...

BERLIN (AP) — Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in an intense fight for the capital in May 1945. After decades of division and its ...